publish time

16/07/2020

author name Arab Times

publish time

16/07/2020

KUWAIT CITY, July 16: Prominent leader of the Islamic Constitutional Movement (ICM) and former MP Mubarak Al-Duwailah was taken into custody Wednesday at noon after a warrant for his arrest was issued by Attorney General Counselor Dirar Al- Asousi, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

Mubarak Al-Duwailah

According to security sources the investigations lasted for three hours and that the case has been classified as ‘State Security’. The search and arrest warrant was issued against the background of ‘leaked conversation’ with the late Libyan president Muammar Gaddafiwhich happened in the latter’s tent in Tripoli.

The security sources said the Prosecution has slapped four charges against Al-Duwailah including what it called ‘infringing the Amir’s person’, destabilizing security, transmitting information that harms the reputation of the country, according to the report transmitted from ‘State Security’ which includes leaking the audio recording attributed to Al-Duwailah with Gaddafiand other information discovered during the investigations by the State Security Service.

The sources confirmed that “the investigations focused on the tweets posted by Al-Duwailah on his Twitter account and claimed that his travel to Libya was with the knowledge of His Highness the Amir – when the Amir was the Minister of Foreign Affairs – and that he informed him of what happened during the meeting with Gaddafiand that His Highness directed him to inform King Salman, who was then Prince of Riyadh.

Meanwhile, Al-Qabas daily said the Public Prosecution has decided to release Al-Duwailah on KD 1,000 bail. In an unrelated development, Al- Seyassah daily added, an official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the UN Security Council has issued Resolutions under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations to include four entities and two peoples as terrorist groups, explaining that the action was taken in partnership with the United States and Saudi Arabia and members of the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center.”

While the source did not mention the names of entities and persons, the Saudi News Agency revealed that Riyadh has classified the same terrorist entities, which are 3 exchange companies in Turkey and Syria which transfer money to ISIS, including ‘Al-Haram and Al-Khaldi’ in Turkey and Syria, as well as ‘Tawasul’and ‘Najat’ social care organizations.

The social organization ‘Najat’, works as a front for transferring funds to ISIS and supporting its activities, also included on the list are Saeed Habib Khan, its director in Afghanistan, in addition to Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Ahmad Al-Rawi for transferring funds to the terrorist organization.