Court Adjourns Moi Hospitality Case For Hearing To Next Month

The Criminal Court adjourned to April 7 the case related to theft of public funds known as “Ministry of Interior Hospitality case” in order to take photocopies of the case files and view the seized objects, which were unpacked recently by the court in front of the defendants and their defense teams. In the previous court session, the defendants were brought to the court and they saw the seized objects, which included receipts and original documents, relevant to the case. Previously, Public Prosecution declared that investigations concerning the complaint filed by Ministry of Interior against 24 individuals have been finished. It then referred the lawsuit to the Court of First Instance to decide on a session at the Criminal Court to pass a ruling on the lawsuit in the light of the report prepared by the State Audit Bureau and according to the results of the investigation conducted by a team of investigators assigned by the Public Prosecutor Dhirar Al-Asousi. The team listened to the testimonies of 40 individuals including the head and members of the committee formed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Khalid Al-Jarrah in this regard. The team reviewed about 10,000 documents and received help from experts in State Audit Bureau, Central Bank of Kuwait and commercial banks. The Public Prosecution then detained nine suspects, charging them with theft of public funds and facilitating its theft. It also charged 24 suspects with money laundering and forgery of official documents.

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