Minister promises radical solutions to real estate fraud and corruption

Man violating curfew opens fire at police

KUWAIT CITY, June 30: Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Dr. Fahad Al-Afasi recently received in his office Sheikha Fadia Saad Al-Abdullah who was accompanied by a delegation consisting of members of the Union of Victims of Real Estate Frauds, a number of Kuwaiti officials, and academics, reports Al-Anba daily.

This visit was made based on the decision taken by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled in response to Sheikha Fadia’s appeal concerning the importance of considering the suffering of those affected by real estate frauds, to assign the Minister of Justice to follow up this file and find final solutions to the issue that has aggravated in the current stage, especially after the disclosure of many corruption issues.

Regarding the meeting with the Minister of Justice, Sheikha Fadia praised his large heartedness. She explained that he listened attentively to every detail of that issue and promised to launch further studies with the aim of developing radical solutions to the problem that has so far claimed nearly 20,000 Kuwaiti victims as well as a number of Gulf nationals and expatriates. It led to the worst form of psychological and social impact among that segment of citizens after their savings were confiscated.

Sheikha Fadia praised the directions of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad in his recent speech when he stressed that “Kuwait before Corona is not Kuwait after Corona” and called for concerted efforts to cooperate and rebuild.

She revealed that her attention in that case was caught by the fact that women were the target group, along with many men who fell into the trap of real estate frauds.

Sheikha Fadia stressed that they are malicious ideas that seek to strike the cohesion of the Kuwaiti family, which is destroyed by debts of the real estate companies such that they were not able to obtain the property or get rid of those debts.

Police shot at:

An unidentified person allegedly fired at a police patrol when the patrolmen manning a checkpoint in Abu Al-Hassaniya demanded to see the man’s ID and permit why he was out on the streets during the curfew hours, reports AlRai daily.

In the passenger seat was a woman and the suspect, who appeared abnormal, allegedly stepped on the gas pedal and escaped.

He was hotly pursued by the police and the former fired at the police patrol. A security source added one of the patrols chased him until he stopped suddenly alongside another car, came out of the car armed with a weapon and fired in the air and threatened to shoot anyone if they approached him.

He then got into another car and

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escaped leaving behind the woman who then drove off in the suspect’s car.

The source stated when police combed the area, they found one of the vehicles abandoned in the area.

The car has been impounded. Police are investigating the incident.

‘No one above law‘:

‘No one is above the law’ and this applies to everyone. In implementation of this principle, security men recently forced an unidentified officer working for the Ministry of Interior to vacate the chalet which he had rented, cut off power supply and referred him and his guests for interrogation, reports Al-Rai daily.

According to a security source, the Operations Room of the Ministry of Interior received several complaints that ‘someone’ had rented a chalet was causing disturbance -- the music was blaring and those inside the young men and women were behaving unruly.

The Ahmadi Security Directorate was informed and a security force was formed containing personnel from the Coast Guard under the supervision of the Director of Security, Major-General Saleh Matar, and his assistant, Brigadier Walid Shihab.

The security party headed to the chalet and discovered the chalet was leased to an officer in the Ministry of Interior and the occupants were forced to evacuate immediately.

In coordination with the concerned authorities the lease contract was cancelled and power supply disconnected and summoned the officer and others for interrogation for violating public morals.

E-platform launched:

The National Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises Development launched an integrated electronic platform for receiving the applications of nationally funded entrepreneurs, reports Al-Rai daily.

The services provided through the platform are as follows:

1. Requests of those affected by the corona crisis,

2. Requests to extend the payment period, 3. Requests to disburse financing, 4. Requests to increase the amount of financing.

The fund also launched an online service to communicate with the Finance and Investment Sector, through which the inquiries of financiers will be received without visiting the fund’s headquarters.

Fire

report rejected:

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry vehemently denied the rumor that fire engulfed a strategic food reserve warehouse, stressing this rumor is absolutely false, reports Al-Rai daily.

The ministry affirmed all of its warehouses are intact and there has been no fire incident in any of these structures.