The report reportedly contains “clear evidence of violations of regulations and mechanisms of spending” that the state department follows, according to a report quoting sources familiar with the case.
After the Cabinet receives the report, it will be sent to Parliament. The source said this will help “settle this issue since the report explains that the violations are related to administrative procedures and spending mechanisms”, and not connected to the financial status quo of former Cabinet members.
A parliamentary committee investigating the case was scheduled to meet yesterday with Finance Ministry Undersecretary, Khalifa Hamadah, as well as the Director of the Administrative and Financial Affairs Department in the Foreign Ministry.
According to sources close to the committee, the meeting was supposed to focus on whether the transfers were ordered by Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah.
MP Musallam Al-Barrak demanded that the State Audit Bureau be assigned to investigate the subjects brought up during the debate of the grilling against Finance Minister Mustafa Al-Shamali.
The lawmaker, who co-presented the grilling with MPs Khalid Al-Tahous and Abdurrahman Al-Anjari, said the new finance minister will be given a “three month period to execute measures of reform, or else be considered an accomplice in crime with Al-Shamali”.
Al-Shamali reportedly submitted his resignation following the debate last Thursday, which ended with a request to file a vote of confidence. The 30-member plus Majority Bloc can easily vote him out of office.
To fill the void left by Al-Shamali, it is widely speculated that the Cabinet could be currently mulling a reshuffle that will also see the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Ahmad Al-Rujaib, and the Minister of Defense, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, moved to avoid facing grilling motions planned against them.
Sources recently said that former Interior Minister and current head of the National Security Service, Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, could return to the Cabinet in the planned reshuffle.
Chancellor Faisal Al-Murshed, Head of the Supreme Judicial Council, reportedly rejected parliamentary proposals to enforce amendments to regulations that organize the work of the Constitutional Court, according to a letter sent to Parliament Speaker Ahmad Al-Saadoun.
According to the letter, Al-Murshed reportedly described the amendments as “dangerous and leading to the destruction of democracy and the law, in addition to hindering the judicial authority’s independence”.
