Two defendants have been ordered to serve 10 years in prison and pay BD100,000 each after the High Criminal Court of Appeal upheld guilty verdicts over forged documents and false entries used to draw more than BD230,000 from Tamkeen and the Social Insurance Organisation. The court also upheld oneyear jail terms and BD500 fines for the remaining defendants, while suspending the sentences of two female appellants after they paid the sums due to the Social Insurance Organisation (SIO). The Financial Crimes and Money Laundering Prosecution said the case began after it received several reports from the Social Insurance Organisation alleging that a number of company owners had taken more than BD90,000. Prosecutors said the defendants supplied forged private papers and entered incorrect information into the organisation’s electronic system. The false entries, the prosecution said, included adding and removing insured persons to gain access to social insurance payments. That, prosecutors said, created fictitious work periods that led to retirement pensions, end-of-service gratuities and one-off compensation being paid without entitlement. Tamkeen also filed reports, according to prosecutors, alleging that the same defendants took more than BD140,000.