The office of public prosecution accused four defendants of forging and participating in a forgery crime. The office also accused some of the defendants of helping the fourth defendant to escape from the police. The office requested the court to penalize the defendants according to the relevant laws.

The court ruled that the defendants should be imprisoned for ten years each. The court also ruled that the forged documents should be confiscated.

The first and third defendants appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.

The first and third defendants appealed the ruling before the court of cassation. They said in their grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law. They said that the elements of the crime of forgery had not existed in their case.