KUWAIT CITY, Oct 23: A Jordanian expatriate was accused of impersonation after posing as a lawyer and duping a citizen of KD 9,000.
The accused admitted the crime and said he pretended to be a lawyer to swindle his victims by claiming he was registered with the Lawyers Association and officially recognized.
Attorney for the plaintiff Abdulmohsen Al-Qattan said his client met the accused at a diwaniya where he introduced himself as a lawyer. Later, they agreed the accused should manage all legal related issues for the plaintiff and represent him in court to resolve personal problems and cases. The plaintiff uncovered the suspect was a fraud after he had been duped of KD 9,000, which he paid as legal fees.

Hearing adjourned: The Court of Appeals adjourned until Dec 4 the hearing on a petition filed by an expatriate couple against the ruling of a lower court, which had previously sentenced the husband to two years in jail with hard labor and the wife to three years in jail for swindling a private company. The lower court also fined the couple KD500,000 and ordered their deportation after serving the prison terms.
Case files indicate, the woman issued 100 dud cheques worth KD748,281 in the name of the company where she was working.  She then cashed these cheques by impersonating the company owner.  The husband, in turn, was charged with money laundering because he was aware that his wife had transferred the entire amount to his personal account.

Kuwaiti acquitted: The Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Mohammad Al-Khalaf, acquitted a Kuwaiti man of charges of defaming the chairman and board members of a cooperative society. The Kuwaiti reportedly made some statements in print which were seen as defamatory, like the statement ‘The fact that there are many restaurants not working is an indication of lack of coordination in activities. Also, there is clear inadequacy in stocking some commodities, especially children’s items, and this has driven residents of the area to other cooperative stores.’ The defendant’s lawyer Yousef Al-Hajeri argued that his client didn’t mean to defame any of the plaintiffs, since he only meant to serve public interest rather than ridicule the plaintiffs.
He added that his client and the plaintiffs didn’t have any misunderstanding that could have prompted him to get back at them.