Kuwait accuses 3 Jordanians, Iranians and Egyptians of financing terrorist operations

The judicial authorities in Kuwait have charged seven expatriates, including three Jordanians, two Iranians and two Egyptians, with forming an organized criminal group, harming the country's national interests and financing terrorist operations.

Yesterday, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Anbaa, the Criminal Court heard the testimony of a state security officer in the case on charges of financing terrorist operations in Iraq and Syria estimated at more than 60 million Kuwaiti dinars.

The Public Prosecution had assigned the defendants that, during the period from 1/7/2019 to 10/10/2021, the formation of an organized criminal group through which they committed money laundering amounting to (60.334.284.500 dinars) obtained from the two crimes of harming the national interests of the country, and deliberately Violation of due diligence measures, knowing that the first and second defendants, based on the instructions of the seventh defendant, illegally collected cash in Kuwaiti dinars from others through an exchange institution in charge of all its administrative and financial affairs, and handed them over to the third and fourth defendants, who deposited them in the bank accounts of a commercial company and another company that is fictitiously licensed to engage in import and export activity and is a commission agent, and transfers it to an exchange company, if the fifth accused becomes aware of their offense and helps them by connecting them to his automated vehicle to deposit them in the dealing banks and transfer them.

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