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These Sisters Were Jailed And Deported From Bahrain For Illegally Buying 77 Phones!
What started as a clever little scheme quickly spiraled into a full-blown criminal case.
Two sisters flew into Bahrain and, in just three months, helped buy and sell 77 mobile phones using stolen credit card data from a Gulf country
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The brains behind the operation? A mystery man — still on the run — who handled the digital side of things while the sisters took care of pickups and selling the phones.
The scam might have gone unnoticed, but something didn’t sit right with a local electronics retailer. Orders kept pouring in online, all paid for with Gulf-based cards, but all shipped to one Bahrain address. That raised enough red flags to kickstart an investigation.
Police dug in and uncovered nearly BD31,000 worth of phones ordered between September and December 2024 — all linked to the same flat rented by the sisters
That’s where they were eventually arrested. Once in custody, the women admitted they were paid BD1,500 each for their part, which they sent back home. They used local SIMs and personal details to make everything look legit, then handed off most of the profits to the ringleader.
The fallout? The High Criminal Court sentenced the mastermind (in absentia) to six years in prison and slapped him with a BD100,000 fine. The sisters each got four years behind bars and will be deported once they’ve served their time. The court also ordered the confiscation of over BD21,000 in criminal proceeds.
This was a swift takedown by Bahrain authorities reminding everyone that scams like these are always caught!
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