Deported expats held despite ruining fingerprints after returning to Kuwait

‘Houbara’ hunters under probe, face heavy fines

MoI photo KUWAIT CITY, Dec 29: General Administration of the Residence Affairs Investigation over the past few weeks has arrested a number of expatriates who had entered the country on new visas after the records of their fingerprints were allegedly destroyed by ‘unknown’ persons to help them enter the country or some of them had mutilated their fingers after they were administratively deported for committing crimes and banned from entering the country, reports AlAnba daily.

The daily added, some of the expatriates who were arrested have already been deported from the country. The daily added, the administration is now in the process of bridging this gap by doing away with the fingerprint and instead store in the record the eye or face record.

The source pointed out the visas of newcomers are stamped at the airport and a number of them are arrested upon arrival and deported and those who manage to ‘beat the trap’ disappear after entering the country and do not visit the Criminal Evidences Department for fingerprint for fear of being caught.

Giving an example the daily said an unidentified Asian woman was arrested from her home in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh after police received information from her relative.

The woman had allegedly mutilated her fingers to distort the fingerprints.

The source pointed most of these people are from Asia who were expelled from the country either because of practicing suspicious activities, or involvement in immoral activities or bootlegging.

Houbara hunters in trouble:

Not only did an expatriate hunt Houbara birds classified by the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) but proudly spoke of his ability to hunt, reports Al-Rai daily.

To add insult to injury he said “Today God has fed us ... God honored me in a certain way but I will not disclose the method I used to kill the bird. Today is December 25, 2019, that is, and in few days we will herald in the New Year.” Again he cracked a joke saying, “This is forbidden, but it is not my mistake.”

In a second clip that complements the first, the man is commenting on the process of skinning and cleaning the bird after killing it by saying: “Bangladeshi youths, may God bless them, will prepare them for cooking.

Meanwhile, the Environment Public Authority (EPA) told the daily the expatriate and others who are seen in the video clip have been summoned for interrogation by Environmental Police Department. The men are facing a fine between 250 and 500 Kuwaiti dinars. .

The EPA has appealed to everyone living on the land of Kuwait to protect birds and not subject them to any harm in order to protect the ecological balance. Those violating the law will be punished.

In November 2015, the Environment

The houbara hunters show off their kill.

Police had confiscated 29 Houbara birds and four men were taken into custody and referred to the competent authorities.

Smuggling sports car:

Two employees of the General Administration of Customs and two Kuwaitis have been referred to the security authorities for attempting to smuggle a Saudi-registered sports car into the country through the Al-Salmi border point, reports Al-Rai daily.

According to security sources the suspects placed a Kuwaiti number plates on the vehicle in a vain attempt to commit the crime.

According to security sources a Kuwaiti was stopped at the border point when he attempted to enter the country with the sports car that carried the Saudi numbers upon orders of the General Traffic Department.

The owner of the car was forced to park the car and leave. After a few days the securitymen discovered the disappearance of the vehicle which raised many eyebrows and the security authorities took a decision to check the CCTV cameras placed at the border point and to the surprise of the authorities a Kuwaiti is seen replacing the Saudi number plates with the Kuwaiti number plate of the car belonging to his friend and two customs officers allowing the man to enter the country after stamping the papers.

Following this the security authorities took the customs officers into custody and then arrested the owner of the car and his friend and referred to the Salmi Police Station and impounded the vehicle.

12 files under probe:

The government will soon refer to the Public Prosecution about 12 files of corruption in line with the directives of the Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled as the government is determined to fight the scourge of corruption, reports Al-Qabas daily.

The sources said these files are about violations of financial irregularities, nepotism and administrative violations and the most prominent among them are personnel from the ministries of Public Works, Health, Information, Education and Communications, and some other government agencies, in addition to serious violations committed by some departments and sectors in a number of ministries.