MADINAH — A retired nurse accused Madinah Charity for Qur'an Memorization of forging her signature at a local bank to allow the charity to deduct a monthly amount from her account as contribution. The deductions have been ongoing for the last ten years. She said that while she was working at King Fahd Hospital a woman claiming to be a representative of the charity met her. “She (the claimant) had asked for a monthly contribution to the charity,” she added. She informed the representative at the time that she could not commit to monthly contributions, as her salary was modest. The representative then presented the nurse with a recorded tape of the Qur'an as a present. She asked the nurse to sign on a blank paper as a receipt of her present. The nurse claims that she did not notice the deductions from her account, as her salary was being deposited directly into her account. When she retired, she had requested that her pension be deposited into another bank. It was only when the bank notified her that her account was overdrawn, and she had to settle the arrears that she found out about the monthly deductions from her account. Member of the charity, Anas Al-Shaikh, said that the nurse's claims and accusations are unfounded. However, if mistakes have been made the amount will be returned to the nurse, he added.
