Court acquits Kuwaiti citizen of smuggling 250 gms coke
Two brothers' detention extended
By Jaber Al-Hamoud
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 21: The Criminal Section in the Court of First Instance, chaired by Judge Met’ab Al-Ardi, acquitted a Kuwaiti man of smuggling a quarter kilogram of cocaine hidden in a coffee container into the country through Kuwait International Airport.
An officer received a tip off that the suspect would attempt to smuggle the narcotic substance from Lebanon, so the customs officers set an entrapment which led to his arrest. The suspect, when confronted with the substance, disclosed that he was not aware of the content since it was given to him by someone for delivery to another person in Kuwait. He said the supposed recipient would receive it inside a coffee shop in Fahaheel, so the officers went to him and he admitted ownership.
Attorney Talal Al-Enezi, who represented the suspect in court, pleaded on behalf of his client. He urged the court to acquit his client, saying the officers were wrong in arresting him without a warrant. He also pleaded on behalf of the other suspect, arguing that he was not connected to the incident.
Detention extended:
Al-Enezi
The Sentence Renewal Judge extended the detention of two brothers involved in the ‘Jebrit Syassi’ or ‘Political Matches’ State Security case, while it released the third brother on bail of KD 300 as per the petition submitted by Attorney Ayed Al-Rasheedi, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
The Public Prosecution charged the suspects with uttering offensive phrases against the Amiri entity, provoking chaos among citizens, spreading false news, and offending the judiciary, prosecution and some political and prominent personalities in Kuwait.
Al-Rasheedi defended one of the brothers who denied the accusation, emphasizing that the accusation is malicious; therefore,
it is unnecessary to detain the suspect.
10 more days:
The Sentences Renewal Judge has ordered the detention of three Syrians to 10 days for further investigations. The men are accused of forging official documents and acquiring the Kuwaiti nationality illegally.
The men were arrested by personnel of the Research and Follow-up Department of Citizenship and Passports Affairs. The men were all working for the Ministry of Defence.
The main, a Kuwaiti, is charged with accepting KD 15,000 each to add the two accused to his citizenship file.
The other suspect also offered KD 12,000 for the same purpose and as result the three ‘Kuwaitis’ enjoyed all the benefits offered to Kuwaiti citizens such as children’s allowance, rent compensation, marriage loan and even filed applications for housing.
The concerned authorities discovered that one of the children who got the Kuwaiti citizenship illegally some years ago went to the US on government of Kuwait scholarship.
‘Rating’ nullified:
The Administrative Court, headed by Judge Ahmad Al-Dayhan, nullified the ‘Very Good’ evaluation rating given to the head of Social Research and Studies Department at Kuwait University for 2013, which denied him the opportunity to become a supervisor.
The court also ordered the university to pay the plaintiff excellent performance allowance for year 2013 and KD 1,000 compensation for damages caused by the action.
According to the plaintiff’s lawyer, Attorney Khawlah Al-Hassawi, her client was the head of the department at the Deanship of Community Service and Continuing Education Center. He submitted a complaint concerning the evaluation but there was no response, so he was left with no option but to resort to legal channels. She regarded the decision as abuse of power and misapplication of the law. She affirmed that the annual evaluation rating of her client starting from the date of his employment at the university until 2013 was ‘Excellent’.