GCC military officer gets 7-years in prison for attaining Kuwaiti nationality by fraud

Ex-MP to be brought from jail for hearing

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 21: The Court of Cassation sentenced a military officer of a GCC nationality to sevenyear imprisonment with hard labor for obtaining Kuwaiti citizenship fraudulently. The court also fined him KD 167,000, and dismissed him from his job. It acquitted eight other defendants.

According to the case file, the Public Prosecution charged the GCC national with forging official documents including the birth notification, birth certificate, nationality certificate, civil ID, and passport which were issued under his name and with which he committed forgery, as per the investigation.

Meanwhile, the Court of Cassation also sentenced an Arab expatriate to five-year imprisonment with hard labor for posting on his Twitter account words deemed offensive to the entity of His Highness the Amir.

The Public Prosecution charged him with intentionally posting words deemed offensive towards the entity of His Highness the Amir and his authority, misusing his mobile phone to commit the offense on the social media platform “Twitter”, and violating the residency law of Kuwait.

Tabtabaei hearing:

The Court of Cassation will resume hearing on the case involving former MP Walid Al-Tabtabaei and his ex-wife. The former lawmaker will be brought from jail to attend the session scheduled for Feb 6, 2020.

It is worth mentioning the Court of Appeals earlier upheld the decision to sentence Al-Tabtabaei to

7 years imprisonment and ordered transfer of the civil lawsuit filed by his ex-wife to the Civil Court, while the latter dismissed a counter lawsuit filed by Al-Tabtabaei against the ex-wife under the pretext that it was based on malice.

Saudi woman swindled:

A Saudi woman, born in 1958, has filed a complaint with the Khaitan Police

Station accusing an unidentified person of swindling her, reports AlAnba daily.

In her complaint to the police she said someone called her on Viber and spoke in fluent Kuwaiti dialect and said he works for one of the local banks and offered his help to update her bank data.

The complainant said she gave the caller her account and four digit secret number and a few moments later she received a message on er cell phone that 191.500 dinars from her bank account had been withdrawn.

She added she is lucky she had only a small amount in her account.

A security source has renewed a warning to all citizens and expatriates not to respond to such suspicious communications, stressing that no bank employee is authorized to request the secret numbers of any customer.