A Kuwaiti court has handed down a 10-year imprisonment sentence to a lawyer on charges of real estate fraud and money laundering, the latest such case disclosed in the country. The court upheld the sentence earlier passed after trying the lawyer in absentia and ordered him to pay a fine of KD1 million ($3.2 million). Moreover, the criminal court ordered the defendant to return KD2 million. He was convicted on defrauding Kuwaitis in connection to fake projects and swindling KD2 million out of them. The defendent was put on trial after he was brought from outside the country through the Interpol in the case that involved the sale of phantom apartments inside the country. Earlier this month, a Kuwaiti court ordered a former government minister be interrogated in connection with property fraud allegations in a different case. The court accepted a legal complaint filed by a large group of people against the ex- minister accusing him of real estate fraud and money laundering worth KD100 million purportedly swindled out of them for alleged investment in an hotel overlooking the Holy Mosque in the Saudi city of Mecca, reported Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai. Previously, the public prosecution had put on hold […]