Woman sees ray of hope – ‘Framed by close relatives’

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KUWAIT CITY, June 1: Since 2014, a Kuwaiti woman from a well-known family has been spending time inside the Central Prison after she was lured into partnering into an attractive investment project in Istanbul deceived by her husband and brother-in-law after conspiring with a well-known real estate company, according to her account.

The lady who told her story to the Al-Rai daily through someone who is very close to her says, “I found a glimmer of hope in what was published by the daily last Sunday under the title: ‘Dozens of complaints filed against the company officials who have sold real estate abroad and escaped’, as it was soon confirmed that the concerned company was the same that is the cause of her being in prison. According to the female inmate, her husband and his brother in cooperation with Jordanian and Egyptian partners persuaded her to invest her money with one of the well-known real estate companies in two ventures – one in a well-known real estate company in Istanbul and the second in Egypt’s Marsa Alam City in Cairo.

After she was convinced she had risked her money she decided to go to Istanbul to see the project for herself. There she was taken by surprise when the Turkish company in which she is supposed to be a partner of the project, turned out to be a big lie and that the partnership contract had been abrogated five months ago.

The narrator went on to say the victim’s husband snatched a check worth almost 1.5 million dinars, in addition to two promissory notes worth almost KD 400,000 each. The narrator added, after she realized the trick, she went to the bank and withdrew her money, but she then discovered her husband and his partners had submitted the check to the judicial authorities and succeeded in sending her to prison for ‘issuing a dud cheque’. During the stages of investigation and trial, she tried to convince the judicial authorities that she did not want to escape from her payment obligation and ready to deposit the money in the bank, but wanted guarantee for the money for which she did not find an answer.

What is new in this case is that the company has been finally nailed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and has received dozens of complaints from the citizens who have been subjected to what they say was a ‘scam’ by the company itself.

The Ministry of Commerce assigned one of its officials to see the company’s headquarters and it turned out to be the headquarters where there was only the secretary and the Chairman of the Board had resigned from the company officially since Feb. 28, and the last official left Kuwait because of this mess.

Worse still, the company’s license had expired since Sept 16, 2015. In her message the victim wonders if it is reasonable to keep someone behind bars after everything has become crystal clear for the officials. “The company which I entrusted to protect my money has swindled me and many others. Is it reasonable that the company officials escape to their countries but the daughter of Kuwait remains in prison?” she asks.

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