Top officials, Sheikh in funds embezzlement
Youth to pay car rental damages
KUWAIT CITY, July 23: Lawyer Dalal Al-Mulla, on behalf of a Kuwaiti citizen Hamad Al-Muzain, filed a case at the Public Prosecution against two assistant undersecretaries of Ministry of Finance, the Head of Asian Olympic Committee Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad, and the director of one of the companies that was involved in signing a contract with the Olympic committee. Lawyer Al-Mulla accused the four defendants of facilitating embezzlement of public funds.
Lawyer Al-Mulla specified in her case report that the Assistant Undersecretary for State Properties Affairs at Ministry of Finance approved the signing of contract 24298 on 4th September 2004 for the company to rent the Olympic committee’s building in Salmiya area for a period of twenty years. This contract was also sanctioned by the Assistant Undersecretary for Public Financial Affairs.
According to Lawyer Al-Mulla, the report published by the State Audit Bureau in 2013 on assigning the concerned parliamentary committee to verify the procedures followed in the contract indicated that almost KD 376,749.800 was embezzled, which was confirmed by the Olympic committee.
However, two of the parties involved in this case were considered as third parties as described in articles 10, 11 and 14 of Law 1/1993 for Public Funds Protection. She stressed that this fact indicated criminal intentions behind the contract for facilitating embezzlement of the public funds. She stressed that even though the building was under the lease of Kuwait Municipality, the company continued to lease it as commercial offices from 22 December, 2010. Pay damages: Commercial Section of the Court of Appeals dismissed the verdict of First Instance Court that ordered a Kuwaiti youth to pay KD 8500 in damages to a car rental office. The court annulled a promissory note signed by the defendant, since a minor is not obliged by law to make such agreements.