Through B Izzak

KUWAIT: The particular ministers’ tribunal the previous day acquitted former high minister, former protection minister and 7 best officers in a high-profile graft case that concerned the embezzlement of over KD 150 million of public finances, attorneys mentioned. After months of deliberations, the courtroom discovered that former premier HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, who resigned two years in the past, former protection minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and 7 present and previous protection ministry officers weren’t responsible of fees of embezzlement and facilitating graft.

The senior officers concerned within the case come with former protection ministry undersecretary Jassar Al-Jassar, numerous army attaches out of the country and director of the so-called military fund. The officers had been charged with embezzling some KD 157 million of the fund’s property, estimated at KD 240 million. The entire defendants had been detained for a number of months earlier than being launched on bail pending trial.

The ruling isn’t ultimate because it will have to be reviewed via the courtroom of cassation, whose rulings are ultimate. That is Kuwait’s largest graft case that reached the courtroom involving senior participants of the ruling circle of relatives. Round 30 years in the past, former oil and finance minister Sheikh Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah used to be attempted for embezzlement however in spite of everything acquitted.

Sheikh Jaber has occupied a number of Cupboard posts for the reason that Nineteen Eighties, together with protection and data minister, earlier than being appointed high minister in overdue 2011. He resigned two years in the past after the scoop in regards to the military fund graft case become public.