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The Public Prosecutor orders the imprisonment of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Housing and a number of the Ministry’s employees for perpetrating the process of facilitating the theft of 1.8 million dinars, using forged documents and money laundering

The Public Prosecutor Siddiq Al-Sour issued his instructions to initiate the investigation directly into the facts contained in the report of the General Director of the Public Services Company – Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar – towards the Palestinian expatriate KH. M.

The Public Prosecutor took over the investigation procedures regarding the incident of facilitating the commission of the crime of seizing a sum of one million eight hundred thousand dinars after depositing it in a bank account managed by the expatriate accused; It resulted in proving the fact that a group of Ministry of Housing and Construction employees engaged in a positive activity that enabled the expatriate accused to seize the amount of money covered by the protection; In return for this abuse, they obtained a part of the money after disguising its source and the rights related to it.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that, while the investigator was emptied of conducting an interrogation of the Undersecretary of the Housing and Construction Ministry in the Government of National Accord, the Director of Administration and Finance Department and the financial controller, the Director of the Internal Audit Department at the Ministry ended up being held in pretrial detention for the crimes of embezzlement of public money, money laundering, abuse of position for the purpose of achieving material benefit, the use of forged official documents for the purpose of covering the documentary cycle and bank account management.

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