52 factories in Kuwait closed since beginning of this year

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Debts of convicted defaulters amount to over KD 6bln

KUWAIT CITY, April 26: According to a judicial source, the total debts of Kuwaiti citizens against whom orders for the enforcement of judicial rulings were issued amounted to KD 6 billion and 164 million. Orders were issued to prevent the wanted persons from travelling and to seize their assets, reports Al-Qabas daily. He said these debtors include individuals and companies that have defaulted in fulfilling their loan obligations against them.

The source described the national campaign titled “Your support is a joy for them”, which was recently launched by the Ministry of Social Affairs in order to pay off the debts of Kuwaiti citizens and not companies, as “wonderful”, but stressed that it lacks wide social interaction, given the huge amount of debts. He indicated that this campaign and the sums collected are subject to the supervision of the Ministry of Social Affairs, which sets its conditions through the targeted cases, and has the right to distribute funds to whomever it sees fit among the cases against which enforcement rulings have been issued.

The Ministry of Social Affairs had also announced recently that the proceeds of donations from the campaign, which was launched on Sunday, exceeded KD 10 million. This amount will be directed to the Ministry of Justice to pay the debts of indebted citizens, especially the elderly, women and people with special needs, whose circumstances made them fall into the grip of debts which they could not pay back. Meanwhile, statistics prepared by Al-Jarida daily show 52 factories have been shut down administratively for committing various types of violations such as falling short on labor requirements regulating the industry law in Kuwait, at the same time said 27 warnings had been issued and time given to correct the situation, reports Al- Jarida daily.

The violations varied, but the most prominent of them (33 factories) were failure to pay the rents, in addition to practicing activities without a license, distortion and carrying out work outside the boundaries of the plots on areas of up to 1500 square meters, as well as exploiting the plot for work other than what the authority license mentioned. As for the warnings, they were issued due to the closure of the factories, in addition to workers residing inside the factories, in addition to practicing activities without an industrial license in various areas, according to the reports of the Industrial Inspection Department.

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