The prosecutors entrusted with the task of investigating violations in public funds disclosed that they were continuing their investigation into several violations committed at Radio Kuwait. The prosecutor called on the Director of the Financial Affairs Nayef Al-Ouaihan to listen to his testimony regarding the mechanism of payments and modes of spending the budget.
He said that he found several violations and waste of public funds at Radio Kuwait, like payments done for programme presenters who did not exist at Radio Kuwait at all. Some of them did not even reside in Kuwait, like one of the female announcers who lives in Canada and a young girl who is 12 years old and her name is listed in one of the programmes.
The prosecutors also said that they were investigating the forgery case where one of the programme writers forged a PhD degree to work in the ministry . Officials said that the public prosecutor’s investigations would also include getting testimonies of a number of directors and as well as the director of scriptwriters to throw light on the violations in several financial and administrative issues.
(Source: Kuwait Times/R Netherlands Media Network)