The Kuwaiti Court of Appeal sentenced Major General Mazen al-Jarrah and Nawaf al-Shalahi to five years in prison and fined them KD1.360 million for money laundering and bribery in what was known as the case of the Bangladeshi MP.
It is the second part of the Bangladeshi MP, which dates back to June 2020 and involves security and political figures accused of human trafficking and money laundering.
The Appeal overturned the ruling of the Criminal Court, which released Jarrah last March without guarantee.
The Kuwaiti authorities arrested the Bangladeshi lawmaker on June 7, 2020, and he confessed to helping senior Kuwaiti officials and the interior ministry bring migrant workers on fake contracts in exchange for sums of money.
In 2020, the Bangladeshi MP, Mohammad Shahid, was convicted of human trafficking and sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labor and a fine of KD2.7 million.
The court ordered the defendant to be deported after serving his sentence.
The Bangladeshi MP spent many years working in Kuwait and later returned to his country and became a member of the parliament. He is known in Bangladesh as “Kazi Babol.”
The Criminal Investigation Department in Kuwait charged him with human trafficking, money laundering, and torturing employees of his company based on complaints from five Bangladeshi migrant workers.
The accused MP was arrested in his home in the Mishref area and was charged with receiving money from dozens of workers in return for bringing them in from Bangladesh to Kuwait through a company he managed with illegal assistance from Kuwaiti officials accused in the case.
He also paid bribes to influential people to obtain tenders and forced workers to pay annual royalties in exchange for work contracts.
