KUWAIT CITY, Sept 1: Director of Charity Organizations Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Nasser Al-Ammar has announced that the ministry has shut down 23 companies, believed to be part of a network involved in collecting money through ‘begging’, reports Al-Rai daily.
Al-Ammar added these companies formed 80 percent of the network involved in illegal activities.
Al-Ammar added a large number of people were arrested for collecting money in the name of charity projects in their home countries. All those who are arrested allegedly entered the country on visit visas and were involved in ‘begging’.

More to bedoun cheat: The bedoun youth who was arrested last Saturday for threatening to post the pictures of his ex-girlfriend and continued to blackmail her until she ended paying him a lot of money and finally complained to police is said to have played the same game with seven other young women, reports Al-Anba daily quoting knowledgeable security sources.
The same sources said the suspect claimed to be a businessman from a GCC state and promised to marry the women he was involved with and managed to take pictures of the women and then began to blackmail them.
Police interrogations show the man has until now looted about KD 30,000 from his victims and KD 10,000 from yet another.
Police have allegedly confiscated from the man his laptop, cell phones and CDs containing pictures of his victims.

‘Sanctity of veil violated’: A Kuwaiti woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, has recently appealed to the Minister of Interior through the Al-Rai daily to take action against the misbehaving police.
During her visit to the daily, accompanied by her two daughters, the woman said securitymen raided the family apartment at a late evening hour and did not even give opportunity for female members of the family to wear their hijab.
The police reportedly forced their entry into the house by breaking the door and began looking for her husband. The man was dragged out of the house and taken into custody on what the cops said ‘suspicion’.
The woman added her husband is in his 60s and was held in detention for six days without charge. Until now nobody has told the family on what grounds the man, who is in custody for the past six days, will be released.