Pakistani official ‘filmed stealing Kuwaiti’s wallet’

A SENIOR Pakistani civil servant sparked an embarrassing diplomatic incident when he was allegedly caught on CCTV stealing the wallet of a visiting Kuwaiti delegate.

The Kuwaitis made a complaint to Pakistani officials during a mission to discuss investment plans when one visitor said his wallet had gone missing during the meeting.

Officials searched the economic affairs division of the finance ministry and frisked employees in the hunt for the wallet, Dawn, a leading Pakistani newspaper reported. It was only when CCTV in the meeting hall was checked that a senior bureaucrat with the Pakistan Administrative Services, was seen taking the wallet. A six-second clip said to show the incident was widely shared on social media. The clip showed a man taking a wallet from a conference table and putting it in his pocket.

The official reportedly denied involvement until he was confronted with the video and then produced the missing wallet.

Pakistani officials at first refused to tell their guests who the culprit was, until the furious Kuwaitis insisted and were shown the film.