Husband’s demand of cash for luxury watch turned down
Ambassador acquitted
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 5: The Family Court presided over by Judge Mohammad Al-Jasmi refused the need for a woman to pay her husband KD 2,000, which is the value of a luxury watch that her husband claimed she took before leaving him with.
According to the case file, the man claimed that his wife, when she left the house with their children, took a luxury watch, as it was missing from the house. He urged the court to obligate his wife to pay him the value of the watch, which is KD 2,000.
The defense counsel Lawyer Mohammad AlQattan insisted that the allegations raised by the man against his client are false and there are no evidences to prove his allegations.
He said, according to the law, such allegations have to be proven and since the man was unable to prove his allegations, the case has to be rejected.
Lawyer Al-Qattan managed to prove that his client owed her husband neither money nor any other material possessions.
Envoy acquitted: The Court of Appeals acquitted a Kuwaiti ambassador after overturning the verdict of the First Instance Court which sentenced him to seven years in prison with hard labor for embezzling public funds and ordered him to return the embezzled amount — KD 299,000.
The court also acquitted an administrative attaché involved in the same case, after canceling the five-year jail sentence with hard labor imposed on him and the order to dismiss him for misappropriation of public funds.
The Public Prosecution charged the accused, in their capacity as public sector employees representing the State of Kuwait in another country, with embezzling public funds amounting to KD 299,000.
The administrative attaché allegedly endorsed checks for this amount and this is considered an administrative violation.
Case files indicate the ambassador used the checks to get money from the account of the embassy. Results of investigations revealed the accused gave a portion of the money to the authorities to settle some embassy matters but he embezzled the remaining amount — a crime classified as money laundering.
The prosecution added the ambassador was also involved in money laundering operations worth KD 94,000 as the money was transferred from the embassy’s account to his own account. The attaché was aware of the operations, so he is an accomplice or directly involved in forging official documents.
Ruling Jan 16:
Petition filed: Attorney Abdulhameed Al-Saraf has submitted a petition against the results of elections in the Fourth Constituency to the Constitutional Court under Electoral Appeal No. 2/2016.
Al-Saraf based his petition on the alleged mistakes in the counting of votes, claiming the number of votes for his client — Faraj Zeben Erbeed Al-Erbeed — which was announced by the official media does not match reports of the candidate’s representatives in the electoral committees.