26/11/2025
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26/11/2025
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KUWAIT CITY, Nov 26, (Agencies): The Public Prosecution has launched investigations into nine cases related to human trafficking and money laundering, into the exploitation of workers in cooperative societies due to their humanitarian and financial circumstances. The Public Prosecution explained that the defendants forced these workers to pay daily fees in exchange for being allowed to work, in addition to depriving them of their legal rights. These acts constitute forms of exploitation prohibited under Law No. 91/2013 concerning the combating of human trafficking and migrant smuggling.
The Attorney General has issued directives to form investigation teams composed of members from the Capital Prosecution and the Anti-Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Prosecution. These teams are tasked with examining the cases, gathering evidence, and questioning witnesses and defendants, in coordination with supporting agencies, while taking the necessary measures to protect the victims.
To date, the Public Prosecution has recorded the testimonies of 115 victims and questioned 48 defendants. Kuwait’s Attorney General Counselor Saad Al-Safran has ordered the formation of investigation teams to look into several cases related to human trafficking and money laundering crimes, Public Prosecution said on Tuesday. In a statement, the prosecution added it has commenced investigations into nine cases related to illegal exploitation of workers at cooperative societies. Such practices are a type of misuse banned by the Law No. 91 of 2013 on combating human trafficking, it noted.
The prosecution elaborated that it has recorded accounts of 115 victims and interrogated 48 suspects until now, and investigations are going on, it said.
