{"id":60447,"date":"2022-01-24T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?p=60447"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:41:00","slug":"kuwait-army-officers-to-be-prosecuted-on-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-army-officers-to-be-prosecuted-on-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Army officers to be prosecuted on corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kuwaiti Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has referred two Kuwait Army officers, a colonel and lieutenant colonel, to the public prosecution on charges of misappropriation with public funds.<br>Nazaha said in a statement that its corruption and investigation division had received a notification from the deputy prime minister and minister of defense regarding the working out of the contract by the ministry to purchase Eurofighters aircraft.<br>It noted that auditing of the case revealed that huge sums of money had been appropriated &#8212; much higher than the total value that had been agreed upon in the basic deal.<br>Funds had been spent without advance permits from the concerned authorities at the ministries of defense and finance, it noted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kuwaiti Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has referred two Kuwait Army officers, a colonel and lieutenant colonel, to the public prosecution on charges of misappropriation with public funds.Nazaha said in a statement that its corruption and investigation division had received a notification from the deputy prime minister and minister of defense regarding the working out of &#8230; <a title=\"Kuwait Army officers to be prosecuted on corruption charges\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-army-officers-to-be-prosecuted-on-corruption-charges\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kuwait Army officers to be prosecuted on corruption charges\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kuwait Army officers to be prosecuted on corruption charges - Kuwait News Gazette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-army-officers-to-be-prosecuted-on-corruption-charges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kuwait Army officers to be prosecuted on corruption charges - Kuwait News Gazette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Kuwaiti Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) has referred two Kuwait Army officers, a colonel and lieutenant colonel, to the public prosecution on charges of misappropriation with public funds.Nazaha said in a statement that its corruption and investigation division had received a notification from the deputy prime minister and minister of defense regarding the working out of ... 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