Former MPs acquitted of insulting Jordan

Verdict in funds scam case upheld

By Jaber Al-Hamoud

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 21: The Court of Cassation dismissed the appeal submitted by the Public Prosecution against the verdict issued to acquit former MPs Musallam Al-Barrak, Mubarak Al-Wa’alan and Salem Al-Namlan, and the citizen Abbas Al-Sha’abi who were accused of offending the Jordanian King.

The court decided to uphold the acquittal decision taken by the Court of Appeals.

The case was filed by Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Public Prosecution had charged the suspects with circulating false information about the internal situation in Kuwait. Musallam Al-Barrak was charged with offending Jordan.

They were also charged with illegal gathering and not responding to the orders of securitymen to end the demonstration.

During the investigations, the suspects had denied the accusations.

Verdict upheld:

The Court of Cassation upheld the verdict issued by a lower court which acquitted all defendants accused of facilitating misappropriation

Nationality by fraud:

Surprisingly the suspect is shown as 21 years old Kuwaiti and in Saudi Arabian documents his age is mentioned as 34 years old, reports Al-Rai daily.

The sources said the Kuwaiti sold his conscience for 16 thousand dinars and added the Saudi to his nationality file. After the fraud was discovered the man was referred to the Public Prosecution.

According to sources the arrest came after the Kuwait Nationality and Passports Department received news from secret sources that the Saudi identified only as ‘S’ had obtained the Kuwaiti citizenship through fraud by giving false information in 2008 in exchange for a sum of money paid to a citizen who added him to the file of his citizenship and he became Kuwaiti and enjoyed all financial privileges in terms of employment of public funds in the Jaber International Stadium tender.

The case was filed against 32 individuals including officials and employees of Ministry of Public Works and Public Authority for Youth and Sports as well as the project contractor, and others working in the government.

Initially, the total number of government officials implicated in the case was 37 but six of the accused have already been exonerated from all charges, which involved misappropriation of about KD 5.5 million that was allocated for the stadium project.

support and rent allowance and others.

When the Saudi felt that he was under security by the concerned authority he began using his Saudi documents.

The source continued following the discovery of the forgery the detectives briefed the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khalid Al-Jarrah and instructions were issued to the Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Lieutenant General Essam AlNiham to speed up the arrest of the suspect and refer the man for interrogation.

The source pointed out that the suspect is married to a 31-year-old woman and has been enjoying all facilities in matters of finance and moral, education, treatment, government housing and employment opportunities.