KUWAIT CITY, Feb 20: The General Immigration Department (security sector) has arrested a senior official from the Hawalli Labor Department for allegedly trading in residence permits, reports Al-Shahed daily.
The official was reportedly caught for manipulating the file of 90 establishments and inflating their personnel recruitments.

A police source said the arrest came after the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Zhikra Al-Rashidi had referred the files of some suspicious employees who trade in visas for favor of fake companies.

The same source said, the senior official was visiting the office after working hours and adding more laborers to the files of companies, the extra visas were then sold to prospective buyers.

The official had access to the computer system because he knows the passwords of his staff.
He has been referred to the authorities.

Call traders caught: Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department recently raided three locations in Abu Halifa and Murgab and arrested a number of Asians for trading in overseas calls, reports Al-Shahed daily.
A police source said police acting on a tip-off raided the ‘communications cabins’ in the two places after getting a warrant from the Public Prosecution.
The Asians then guided police to a hideout from where three Bangladeshis were offering the same illegal service.
Police have confiscated from the illegal service providers, sophisticated devices used to steal telephone lines, stopwatches and Thuraya satellite phones.