Kuwait.. Imprisonment for the fugitive "transportation" embezzler: he stole 6 million and will return 18 million

The Criminal Court, in absentia, sentenced the "fugitive" Transportation Corporation employee who embezzled 6 million dinars from his employer over a period of 4 years by collecting sums owed to the state from companies and depositing them in his personal account instead of the ministry's account, for a period of 7 years, and obligating him to return the amount He was seized with a value of 6 million dinars, and a fine of another 12 million dinars (meaning that the accused must return 18 million dinars for his crime), and ordered his dismissal from public office for a period of 5 years.

In the merits of the case, which was published by Al-Qabas newspaper, the court considered that the accused had committed a crime of money laundering in the legal sense, and the criminal intent was achieved by transferring the embezzled funds through three bank accounts to conceal their source before discovering his case and his escape.

The court noted that the crime of forgery in official documents is realized by simply changing the truth in the official document.

She explained that regardless of the motive for this, even if no harm is achieved to a particular person, this forgery inevitably results in harm to the public interest, because of the tampering with official documents that undermines their value and undermines confidence in them in the eyes of the public, as they are what must be in accordance with The law is ratified and adopted, and the judgment does not have to speak explicitly and independently of the element of criminal intent or other elements of the crime as long as it has mentioned in its codes evidence of its existence.

The court concluded that the accused had committed the crime of appropriating public money, the crime of forgery, and the crime of money laundering entrusted to him, as the evidence from the papers is that the accused, as a public employee of the Ministry of Communications who is charged with collecting the value of financial dues from subscribers in those services, deludes the subscribers of the need to pay The indebtedness owed by them in cash or by depositing it in his personal accounts with the banks, and then he proved, through his user number, receipts of receipt and collection, that these subscribers fulfilled their debts through the “Knet” in contrast to the fact by entering incorrect data that the participants paid the debts owed to them.

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