By Noor Zahra
A WOMAN has been acquitted of embezzling BD8,500 from a savings association after a court heard she was a victim of a con.
The 43-year-old Bahraini was standing trial at the Lower Criminal Court on charges that she had taken the money from several participants in 2018.
Defence lawyer Intisar Al Asfoor argued that the woman who filed the case against her client had set up the association and failed to pay her client her share of the funds.
Click here to read more.