State Security Crimes Court hands down prison sentences, million-dinar fines, and company closures in three cases

The State Security and Terrorism Crimes Criminal Court, presided over by Advisor Nasser Al-Badr and with the participation of Advisors Omar Al-Mulifi, Abdullah Al-Falih, and Salem Al-Zaid, issued verdicts in three cases involving money laundering and state security crimes. The sentences included imprisonment, financial fines, deportation from the country, closure of companies, and bans on convicts from engaging in commercial activities.

In the first case, which involved 12 Egyptian nationals and six companies operating in various fields, the court convicted the defendants of managing a money laundering network valued at 22.294 million dinars through the hawala system, using company accounts, deposit receipts, and forged foreign transfer invoices.

The court acquitted the sixth and eleventh defendants. It sentenced defendants one through five and seven through ten to ten years of hard labor and fined them 44.588 million dinars. The convicted companies were fined 22.294 million dinars. The twelfth defendant was sentenced to five years in prison and fined 6,000 dinars. All convicts were banned from engaging in any commercial activity, their offices were permanently closed, and they were ordered to be deported from the country after serving their sentences.

In another case, the court sentenced an expatriate to five years in prison for joining the ISIS terrorist organization and fined him 500 dinars for the remaining charges. It also decided not to pronounce a sentence on a Kuwaiti man and woman who were released on bail of 500 dinars, acquitting them of the charge of broadcasting false news.

In the third case, the court sentenced a Kuwaiti national to five years in prison for insulting the Amir and violating the National Unity Law. It decided not to pronounce sentences on two other defendants, who were released on bail of 500 dinars, and confiscated the drone seized in the case.