The Ministry of Interior (MoI), after opening for visitors, an online appointment system was introduced for advanced appointments to reduce congestion in the departments. Since June, MoI was able to register 343,115 appointments, including 72,747 for the various traffic departments, Al Anba daily reported.
However, a citizen and a Bangladeshi expat took advantage of the situation where a large number of expatriates wanted to renew their car registration books, and offered registration without a prior appointment in exchange for bribes.
The illicit business caught the attention of the Security authorities, and investigations were launched. The expatriate was arrested, and he turned in the employee during investigations. They were referred to the Public Prosecution for taking bribes for doing their jobs.
Regarding the full details of the case, a security source told Al-Anba daily that the personnel of the Ahmadi Governorate Search and Investigation Department led by Colonel Omar Al-Rasheed, the director of the administration, went to arrest the Bangladeshi expatriate named “Saddam Hussein” who worked at Al-Ahmadi Traffic Department for illegally processing various transactions including renewing car registration books for a bribe of KD20 dinars for expatriates without a prior appointment.
The bribe was shared with the Kuwaiti employee who completed the transactions with KD10 for each of them. The daily said, quoting the source, that the expatriate admitted that in the past three months, he managed to illegally obtain KD30,000 dinars through the business, and KD15,000 dinars was remitted to his homeland.
The daily said, quoting sources, that an investigation was conducted with the employee, who initially attempted to deny the accusation but admitted her involvement in the crime after being confronted with evidence, and she was referred to the prosecution.
The Ahmadi Investigation Department submitted a report on the case to the Ahmadi Traffic Department, which revealed a record number of transactions completed without prior appointment, which proved that the alleged criminals earned thousands of dinars through illegally completing transactions.