publish time

13/10/2019

author name Arab Times

publish time

13/10/2019

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 12: The Criminal Court adjourned until Nov 9, the case involving a former MP and 5 others accused of real estate fraud and money laundering by their victims.

The plaintiffs are represented by attorney Ali Al-Ali who requested the court to slap the maximum punishment on the defendants.

The case files indicate that the Public Prosecution accused the defendants of carrying out one of the major real estate scams in the country by embezzling and laundering money acquired from their unsuspecting victims worth KD 188.6, in addition to Qatari Riyal 25.6 million.

The prosecution also accused them of fraudulently acquiring KD 16 million and QR1.5 million from victims through a dummy real estate project