Kuwait’s Court of Cassation has sentenced former defense and interior minister Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah al-Sabah to seven years in prison on charges related to misuse of money from the Army Fund.In the same case, the court did not sentence former Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah but ordered him to return the money he mismanaged, Kuwaiti media reported.
The court, headed by Counselor Sultan Bursali, on Sunday, November 26, fined the defendants 340.50 million dollars and mandated repayment of double the embezzled amount, totaling 681 million dollars.