Nazaha refers ‘corrupt’ Municipality officials to Prosecution
The Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has referred the supervisors and other personnel at the Kuwait Municipality to the Public Prosecution over suspected offenses, including unintentional ‘financial’ discrepancies and forgery.
Nazaha emphasized this exercise is part of an ongoing commitment to investigating credible corruption reports and expressed appreciation for the role of whistleblowers and cooperating entities, reports Al-Jarida daily.
The Authority also reaffirmed its obligation to protect informants with the highest levels of confidentiality as stipulated by law.
Moreover, Nazaha’s Planning and Follow-up Office released the fifth annual report of the Kuwait Strategy for Promoting Integrity and Combating Corruption.
The report highlighted that the total number of reports submitted to the Authority between 2017 and 2024 has exceeded 500. These reports included a wide range of crimes such as harm to public funds, facilitation of illegal acts, forgery, suspected forgery, administrative violations, illicit gains, and conflicts of interest.
The report also documented a total of 63 protection requests made over the same period. Specifically, one request was submitted in 2016, another in 2017, two in 2018, nine in 2019, and none in 2020. In 2021, the number rose significantly to 18 requests, followed by 12 in 2022, 13 in 2023, and seven in 2024.
As for the number of reports received by year, the Authority recorded 10 reports in 2017, 90 in 2018, 98 in 2019, 106 in 2020, 82 in 2021, 64 in 2022, 37 in 2023, and 14 in 2024.
