Kuwait Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) announced on Sunday referring a number of officials at Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), along with others facing corruption charges, to the public prosecution.
Nazaha's official spokesman Dr. Mohammad Bouzbar said in a statement that the notification included results by an investigation panel regarding contracts and projects of crude oil pipelines in northern regions.
They were submitted to the prosecution in line with a notification filed by KOC about suspicious "corruption crimes" that incurred losses, Nazaha said, adding that the suspects were charged with negligence and slackness in management of projects in North Kuwait.
He said that the report highlighted suspected corruption crimes, worth KD 4.683 million (USD 15.4 million).
According to the results, there were suspicious crimes of facilitating seizure of public funds, intentional and non-intentional misappropriation of public funds, illegal profit making and aiding others to make such earnings.
Bouzbar said after Nazaha confirmed existence of reasonable bases for the suspicious corruption crimes, it referred the case to the public prosecution.
