Has a relationship with the Lebanese "Hezbollah"
Full details of the Kuwaiti "Bneider Network" seizure after the renewal of imprisonment of the Iranian Fuad Salehi and 6 accused
The main suspect in the Bneider network, Fouad Salehi.
Today, the judge decided to renew the detention, to continue the detention of the Iranian Fouad Salehi and 6 others among the defendants in the Bneider network.
The number of defendants rose to 10 after 3 officers joined the case, and arrest warrants are awaited for them.
Sources revealed to Kuwaiti "Al-Qabas" earlier that the names of officers had appeared in the investigations of the Bneider network money laundering case, indicating that 3 officers had officially entered the accusation.
The sources described this case as being greater, in terms of the number of defendants, than the case of the "Bengali MP", which is similar with the accusation itself, because it will drag names and oust other heads.
The security services in Kuwait had been monitoring the accused for a period of 3 months, and the beginning was by monitoring and following up an Instagram account that sold precious watches at auction, which led to another account selling luxury cars, and it was found that the owner of this last account has a relationship with an Iranian resident who owns two car and travel offices.
According to the sources, the investigations revealed the Iranian hesitation to certain money exchange shops to transfer large sums of money, and the defendants admitted during the investigations before State Security that the source of the money is the wine trade, but the security men are intensifying investigations to ascertain the true source of this money, and whether it is actually from the wine trade or through Suspicious funds.
The Kuwaiti Al-Jarida website said that after monitoring, tracking and investigations that lasted for several months, the country's security services were able to arrest a money laundering network, after they raided a chalet in the Bneider area inhabited by the network’s mastermind, the main suspect Fuad Salhi, an Iranian expatriate married to a citizen Kuwaiti, and that this network is linked to the Lebanese Hezbollah.
The General Administration for Security Relations and Information at the Ministry of Interior said last month that the control of that network came after tracking the movements of its members in several regions of the country, indicating that the devices raided four other sites used by the accused, namely a house, a farm in Al-Wafra, and two apartments in the capital and Salmiya, and they searched them and kept some reservations. What's in it.
The administration stated, in a statement yesterday evening, that the results of the inspection resulted in "finding luxury and classic cars stored on the farm, four-wheel drive bikes, watches and precious jewelry, sums of money in local currency and others, as well as a number of cartons of wine."
She emphasized that investigations are continuing to reach all those involved and to uncover the rest of the network's members who managed these suspicious operations, to refer them to the judicial authorities after the completion of the investigations.
The initial investigations concluded that this network had been carrying out its suspicious business for 5 years, and that it included, in addition to the main suspect, a Lebanese, without, a Bengali and two Kuwaitis, pointing out that these operations are carried out through a Gulf bank, and then sent to a regional country.
These five defendants, before other defendants joined them, admitted that they were intermediaries with their "chief", and that their role was limited to buying and selling based on his orders, in addition to making important confessions to companies, shops and people who helped them in money laundering.
She revealed that the main defendant admitted that he had extensive relations with state officials, in addition to his close relationship with the convicts in the "Port Fund" case, and that he conducted financial operations with them through several companies affiliated with them. An investigation is underway on their nature and whether they are linked to money laundering.
The sources indicated that there is information about public auctions of cars, precious watches, jewelry and other things that some of the defendants conducted on social media, and that resulted in sales that exceeded 3 million dinars.