Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 932

Forgery of bank documents. The criterion for its establishment: the document in which the truth was altered must have been issued, or be of a kind to be issued, by an employee of a bank competent to draw it up or intervene in it. Art. 259/1, Penal Code. - The appellant's falsely dictating to the competent bank employee that his salary is transferred by his employer to that bank. The employee's recording this and completing his transaction on that basis. Establishes forgery and does not constitute an individual declaration or an obvious forgery. - Punishable forgery. What is not required for it. What matters is the possibility that some people may be deceived by the alteration of the truth. Example.