The Criminal Court sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen and an expatriate to ten-year imprisonment with hard labor on charges of public funds embezzlement.
The Expat was dismissed from the supervisor position in the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs. The court also obligated the duo to return KD 207,000 and an additional fine of twice the amount was imposed as well, AlAnba daily reported.
The Public Prosecution accused the supervisor of acquiring approximately KD 207,000 through tenders by approving false payment invoices of unfinished work assigned to the company represented by the citizen despite their knowledge that the work was not fully carried out.
This rendered the Financial Affairs Department to pay the aforementioned amount to the citizen, who issued a cheque to the expat and handed some of it in cash to the supervisor in a bid to embezzle the amount.
This crime was linked to another felony, the citizen committed falsification of official documents, for the payment of the value of the tender as indicated in the investigations.