Statistics issued by the Public Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) show the authority has referred 14 reports of corruption to the Public Prosecution from the beginning of January 2020 to March 31, 2021.
Sources told a local Arabic daily that these reports, two of them related to the Kuwait Oil Company (suspicion of willful damage and facilitating the theft of public money and the suspicion of embezzlement of public money), one of the Kuwait Swimming Federation (suspicion of embezzlement), and another of the General Secretariat of Endowments (suspicion of intentional damage to public money).
This is in addition to a report concerning Public Authority for Applied Education (suspicion of forgery), and another report related to the Kuwait Club for the Deaf (suspicion of forgery), and two another related to the Ministry of Works (suspicion of profiteering and illicit gain).
The list also includes a report related to the Ministry of Health (suspicion of embezzlement and facilitating the appropriation of public money and profiteering), the National Center for Education Development (suspicion of embezzlement and facilitation of the appropriation of public money), the El-Ayoun Girls Sports Club (suspicion of forgery), and the Ministry of Education (suspicious of forgery) and he intentional harm to public money), the Amiri Diwan (suspicion of facilitating embezzlement of public money), the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (suspicion of intentional harm to public money), and the Kuwait Municipality (suspicion of forgery).
According to this statistics, suspicions of facilitating the appropriation of public money, deliberate damage to public money and forgery topped the corruption cases referred by the authority to the Public Prosecution with a rate of 28.5 percent each, with the suspicion of embezzlement of public money coming next with a percentage of 21.4 percent.
