Most Frequent Criminal Cases In Oman

• Published date: 08 February 2023
• Subject Matter: Criminal Law, White Collar Crime, Anti-Corruption & Fraud, Crime
• Law Firm: Sariya Al Hadi & Ali Al Rashdi & Co.
• Author: Sariya Al Hadi & Ali Al Rashdi & Co

Oman is a country, known for a low crime rate. The crime is too minimal, as it counts to only rare cases which are of criminal nature from the total crimes which are reported annually. Numbeo, the world's largest internet database has released Crime Index by Country 2020 mid-year and ranked Oman as the fifth safest country in the world. According to the Expat Insider Report by InterNations (2019), Oman has been ranked number one in terms of safety and security for expats.

The country is regarded and viewed as a religious and traditional state due to which a crime of any kind is strictly punishable. The Royal Omani Police, known to be highly efficient and not prone to any kind of monetary inducement or bribery, helped the country to enter the safest zone in the world.

The crime rate in 2018, as per the latest data is 0.27 percent. The crime rate in the country was 0.51 in 2017, which was a substantial increase of 27.99% from the preceding year. The foreign commonwealth office (FCO) describes the condition of the law in Oman as "generally good". However, crime is an omnipresent phenomenon. Oman is not far from an exception to it. The rate may be low but the happening still occurs.

The total percentage of the crime registered in Oman in 2021 are as under:

The number of the crimes related to Dishonored cheques ' bounced cheques was recorded to be 7,143 which was 19.9% of the total crime. For information technology and electronic transaction, the number of crimes registered was 2,864 which was 8% of the total crime. For Drugs and psychotropic substances, the crime rate was 7.6%. The crimes related to the violation of human liberty and human dignity were recorded to be 2,340 which was 6.5% of the total crime. Again, the crimes rate and statistics for violation of labour law was 2,166 which was 6% of the total crime, for traffic law violation, the recorded number of crimes was 2,034. For violation of the consumer protection law, the number of crimes registered was 2,002 contributing to 5.6% of the total crime. For Theft and Blackmail, the crime rate recorded was 5.3%, whereas for Fraud cases recorded number was 1685 which was 4.7% of the total crime. "Nasr Al Sawa'i, Public Prosecutor, Dr. Ahmed Al Shukaili, Assistant Public Prosecutor - Annual conference of Oman's Public Prosecution. (31'01'2022)"

A detailed overview of the most frequent crime cases that were spotted in Oman follows as under:

BOUNCED CHEQUES

Bounce cheque is another term to define "Dishonored...