Court jails engineer for cheating many Kuwaitis
Woman gets girl’s custody
KUWAIT CITY, July 12: The Court of First Instance has granted a woman the custody of her daughter.
Through Lawyer Zainab Al-Ramzi, the woman had filed a lawsuit against her stepson for obtaining the custody of her daughter and ending the custody of her 16-year old son.
Lawyer Al-Ramzi explained that her client was a wife of the defendant’s father who later died. The marriage produced a son and a daughter but she wanted to take custody of the daughter and end the custody of the son. However, the defendant objected to that demand, saying the woman was not fluent in Arabic and her loyalty to her home country is stronger than Kuwait whose citizenship she obtained through marriage.
The lawyer stressed that the defendant is the stepbrother of her client’s children and has same father but a different mother, adding that he was unable to provide evidence that he is capable of being his half siblings’ guardian. She affirmed that her client has all prerequisites of a mother to take custody of her children.
Jail for engineer: The Misdemeanor Court sentenced a female electrical engineer in absentia to two-month imprisonment for taking more than KD 12 million from a number of Kuwaiti citizens and fleeing to Iran.
The defendant allegedly collected various amounts of money from many individuals over several years, pledging to refund the amount with 50 percent profit after the first phase and 100 percent after six months. Many were attracted by this offer and they trusted her to the extent of giving her huge sums of money as a form of investment in a lucrative deal. By April 1, 2015, she received a total of KD 8 million from these investors. However, she eventually had to flee to Iran when the investors’ demands for money became too much for her to bear.
Ruling upheld: The Court of Appeals upheld the ruling of the Misdemeanor Court which canceled the six-month imprisonment sentence with hard labor imposed on a citizen, in his 40s, and acquitted him of stealing the car of the daughter of his neighbor and putting its plate number on his own car.
The plaintiff said her car was parked in front of her father’s house and when she went there after one week, she discovered that the car disappeared.
When the accused was subjected to investigation, he denied having knowledge of the missing car. He admitted though that the plate number on his car does not belong to him but he had no idea about the person who fixed it.
Attorney Inaam Haidar, who represented the accused in court, argued the case file lacks evidence against her client and there is not even a single witness to support the defendant’s claims. She also pointed out that finding the plate number of the stolen car on the vehicle of the accused does not mean he committed the act.
Case adjourned: The Criminal Court adjourned to Sept 6 the State Security case filed against the blogger Abdullah Al-Sabah who was accused of offending the Amiri entity.
Reportedly, the State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah filed the case against the blogger who offended the Amiri entity through his account on the Snapchat application.