Ringleaders of 'Supply Gang' sentenced for skimming quarter-kilo portions of allocated goods

The Criminal Court, presided over by Advisor Nasser Al-Badr and with the participation of judges Abdulaziz Al-Muqdad and Abdulhadi Al-Hajjari, and with Yaqoub Al-Bilam serving as clerk, sentenced the manager of a supply branch to a fine of 3,000 dinars, and imprisoned four defendants of Egyptian, Bangladeshi, and Indian nationalities for three years, with deportation from the country following the completion of their sentences, after convicting them of misappropriating food supplies from a supply branch affiliated with one of the cooperative societies in the Al-Jahra Governorate, without the knowledge of the society’s shareholders. The details of the case revealed that the defendants deducted quantities of food supplies ranging between a quarter and half a kilogram from each sale transaction and unlawfully appropriated them.

In a separate ruling, the Criminal Court sentenced a Kuwaiti national employed at one of the banks to 10 years in prison, fined him, and ordered him to repay 550,000 dinars, after convicting him of misappropriating 183,000 dinars from customer funds, as well as committing money laundering and forgery. The case details showed that the defendant exploited his position at the bank to deceive several borrowers into believing that financial fees were due from them, then appropriated the amounts they paid and transferred them to accounts belonging to expatriates whose civil ID cards had expired, including individuals residing outside the country. The incident was uncovered following investigations conducted by the State Security Apparatus and an audit carried out by the bank’s legal department, which identified the violations and suspicious financial transactions, leading to the seizure of the case and its referral to the judiciary.