The Public Authority for Combating Corruption (Nazaha) received 63 complaints in October against leaders and officials in state agencies, suspected of involvement in corruption and misuse of public funds, Al-Qabas daily reported. The total number of complaints received increased to 729 between 2019 and 2020.
The report pointed out that Nazaha has registered 26 complaints in October in the Administrative Complaints file, which are complaints that do not meet the formal or substantive reporting guidelines, in addition to adding 5 complaints that meet the conditions to the inventory register and continuing to study 32 other complaints.
The Nazaha report revealed that complaints increased significantly during October, and investigations are underway to document some corruption crimes. According to the details, the commission is in the process of referring two new complaints to the Public Prosecution and a third complaint to the Audit Bureau against officials involved in corruption.
Nazaha recommended that a complaint received last October be referred to the Audit Bureau, who has jurisdiction, to conduct a disciplinary trial of the whistleblower for a complaint. It also suspended 6 complaints because the people involved were free of any suspicion of corruption-related crimes established according to the law, while other 4 complaints were suspended of suspicion of corruption.
The Ministry of Health, Customs, and Agriculture and the Kuwait municipality continued to be among the highest authorities that had complaints submitted against them, whose sources varied from individuals, entities, and monitoring bodies.