KUWAIT CITY, Feb 11: The Criminal Security Sector has referred an expatriate to the Public Prosecution for allegedly seizing 56,000 dinars from his employer by approving checks to purchase items and then transferring the checks to his account. Monitoring the expatriate’s bank movements revealed that he transferred large sums of money from his account to his homeland, reports Al-Anba daily.

According to a security source, information received by the Criminal Investigation Department shows that an expatriate who works as an accountant in an educational agency forged a purchase document and then transferred the value of the checks to his account. The source added further investigations were conducted, which concluded that the expatriate was involved in embezzlement and breach of trust, and accordingly, permission was obtained from the prosecution and the accused was arrested. During his investigation, he admitted that during the past few years, he had been submitting purchase orders and then signing checks and transferring them back to his account.