Prosecution refers biggest money laundering case to Criminal Court

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KUWAIT CITY, Dec 30: In the wake of the months-long investigation into one of the biggest money laundering cases that surfaced in 2020, the Public Prosecution referred the first case of “the Iranian Salehi Network” to the Criminal Court presided over by Counselor Abdullah Al- Othman for the trial session scheduled for Wednesday December 30, reports Al- Qabas daily. According to an informed source, a separate case has been filed for the accused judges in this network, and the prosecution is still investigating it. The ban on publishing information about the investigation continues.

As for the case referred to the Criminal Court, the court is the one to decide whether the ban on publications is to continue or to allow discussion on the events of the trial of the accused.

The daily obtained the accusation report that referred to the felonies in the case, which took over the public opinion for months. It became clear that there are 19 defendants in the case including four businessmen.

It was discovered that the sums the accused were charged with money laundering were close to KD 5 million, in addition to other accusations related to possession of weapons and liquor trade. The prosecution report revealed that the first to 17th defendants committed the crime of money laundering KD 4,189,822, knowing that it was obtained from the crime of unlawfully appropriating the funds of the Public Institution for Social Security and the Kuwait Ports Authority.

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