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Arrest warrants for Kuwait debtors hit historic low

publish time

13/06/2026

publish time

13/06/2026

Arrest warrants for Kuwait debtors hit historic low

KUWAIT CITY, June 13: The Statistics and Research Department at the Ministry of Justice revealed that more than half a million judicial and enforcement procedures and transactions were recorded in various sectors in April, including judicial notification, family court, rental, inheritance and travel ban, showing the rising workload in judicial facilities and the expansion of reliance on electronic services. Statistics showed that the Enforcement General Department handled the largest share of the workload with a total of 417,172 procedures.

Requests for enforcement attachments on debtors’ assets held by third parties topped the list with 102,773 procedures or 24.6 percent of the total transactions. Arrest warrants for debtors were the lowest, with only two cases recorded. No new requests or renewals of such warrants were issued in the same month. The Capital Governorate led in terms of the volume of completed procedures at 32.2 percent, followed by Jahra Governorate at 16.2 percent, and Al-Ahmadi Governorate at 16.1 percent. The remaining transactions were distributed among the other three governorates and external centers.

By Jaber Al-Hamoud Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff