28/09/2025
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28/09/2025
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KUWAIT CITY, Sept 28: The Court of Cassation acquitted a soldier involved in the case that is widely known in the media as “the drug smuggling case against the Lebanese doctor.” The court upheld five-year prison sentences for two other soldiers, a Kuwaiti female doctor, and two other defendants. They were convicted of kidnapping the Lebanese doctor and planting narcotics on him with the intent to maliciously fabricate a drug trafficking charge.
In its ruling, the court confirmed that the defendants had deceived the victim. They stopped and searched him, then falsely claimed to have found narcotics in his vehicle. A forged arrest report was issued, and the victim was transferred to the Drug Control General Department, where he was unlawfully detained. The defendants’ goal was to falsely accuse the doctor and have him deported from the country.
Lawyer Enaam Haidar, who represented the acquitted soldier in court, presented a strong legal argument and urged the court to reject the Public Prosecution’s appeal and uphold the acquittal. The Court of Cassation agreed and confirmed the acquittal.
Meanwhile, the Court of Appeal, presided over by Judge Hassan Al-Shammari, upheld the ruling of the Court of First Instance, which sentenced the chairman and two board members of a major company, in which the Public Authority for Minors Affairs has a stake, to ten-year imprisonment with hard labor and a fine of KD 14 million. The defendants were convicted of deliberately causing harm to the company’s assets and unlawfully benefiting one board member with KD 7 million through a deal to purchase shares in a struggling company. This case is considered one of the most prominent financial corruption cases brought before the courts this year.
By Jaber Al-Hamoud
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff
