Kuwait’s government is determined to crack down on every individual with relation to corruption cases regarding public funds, money laundering and human trafficking, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah affirmed on Wednesday.
"We will not stay silent nor keep our hands crossed regarding human trafficking and money laundering, and we will not accept these issues be associated with the State of Kuwait, no matter how influential this person is," the PM underscored in a meeting with editors in chief of local newspapers.
"No one is immune from prosecution and punishment as long as there is an assault on public funds," he said.
The PM said that the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, instructed him, soon after he took oath as Prime Minister, to protect and preserve the public funds and fight the corrupt.
He said he considered these instructions a pathway he was pursuing.
Asked about the efforts against human traffickers, the PM said the government was "fighting human trafficking and all companies that violate the laws.”
“We have taken legal action against 224 companies and referred them to prosecution."
The PM said that Kuwait should reduce its expatriate population to 30 percent from the current 70 percent.
Foreigners account for nearly 3.4 million of Kuwait’s 4.8 million people, and that’s a “big imbalance, and we have a future challenge to redress this imbalance,” he told the top editors.
