A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced three defendants, including a policeman, to four years in prison each for involvement in smuggling mobile phones to inmates in exchange for money. The other defendants are an inmate and a mediator, according to Media Court, a Kuwaiti website reporting about legal cases.  The case involved the smuggling of eight mobiles in return for a bribe of KD1,000 ($3,244). They were referred to the public prosecution after they had been caught red-handed committing the illegal act via surveillance cameras. The cop has been dismissed from his job and ordered to pay double the bribe sum. In recent months, Kuwait took legal action against several law enforcers accused of wrongdoing. Earlier this month, a Kuwaiti police officer was discharged for having violated rules on good conduct. The step was taken after Kuwait’s Acting Prime Minister and Interior Minister Fahd Al Yousuf received information about an officer appearing in a video clip driving his car blaring out loud music with a girl sitting next to him, Al Rai newspaper reported, quoting well-informed sources. The officer, who worked for the Interior Ministry, was summoned and questioned. He admitted that the video was his, and that the escort […]