KUWAIT CITY, Aug 6: The Criminal Court has sentenced two Egyptian accountants in charge of the family supplies section at the Ministry of Defense Supermarket to five years in prison and fined them KD149,000 for stealing goods worth KD49,000 in 2021 that they sold other shops before escaping from the country.

The Legal Committee confirmed in its report to the Public Prosecution that it discovered the embezzlement committed by the two defendants; hence, it demanded for their punishment and for them to return the embezzled amount (value of the stolen goods). The supermarket’s management sought legal assistance after the CCTV recordings proved the theft of goods.

After examining the activities of the defendants, it was found that they also forged the signature of a company representative on a returned document for goods from the supermarket. It was revealed that the two employees took the goods from the supermarket and sold them outside the supermarket during the corona pandemic.

By Jaber Al-Hamoud
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff and Agencies