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30 Housewives, 'Employer' Get Jail Over Labor Fraud SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2016 SHAABAN 4, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Nearly 500 Obama to pay Emirates Curry back with people a year historic visit annual profit a bang, named die in traffic to Hiroshima soars 56% as MVP for second accidents3 this month7 fuel21 costs fall straight20 year 30 housewives, ‘employer’ Min 26º Max 38º get jail over labor fraud High Tide 03:40 & 14:14 Low Tide Massive social security violations exposed 08:59 & 21:52 40 PAGES NO: 16870 150 FILS By Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday sentenced 30 Yemen foes agree major prisoner swap Kuwaiti women, mainly housewives, to one year with labor and a KD 1,000 fine each for unlawfully claiming KUWAIT: Yemen’s government and Iran-backed national labor support allowance (known locally as dam rebels agreed yesterday to free half of the prisoners amala) for two years. The ruling also included repaying all and detainees held by both sides, in the first break- the sums they received. The accused had nominally regis- through in peace talks that began last month. The tered their names as employees in a private sector com- deal came during a meeting of the joint working pany without actually working for it. The company owner group on prisoners and detainees formed by UN was also sentenced to one year with labor. The sentence is special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. There has not final as it can be challenged. been mounting international pressure to end the Around 80 percent of Kuwait’s national workforce of Yemen conflict, which the United Nations estimates 360,000 is employed by the government, which offers high- has killed more than 6,400 people and displaced 2.8 er pay and fewer working hours. Under the national labor million since March last year. support program, the government pays a monthly salary to “It was agreed during the meeting to release 50 all Kuwaitis who take up jobs in the private sector. The state percent of the prisoners and detainees within the spends more than $700 million a year on the scheme. next 20 days,” Mane Al-Matari, media adviser to Meanwhile, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Yemen’s foreign minister who heads the government Minister of State for Planning and Development Hind Al- delegation, told AFP. A source close to the Houthi Subaih revealed social security violations involving 51,697 rebel delegation confirmed the agreement to citizens who had been unlawfully getting millions in pub- release half of those held by both sides, describing it lic funds. Subaih stressed strict measures would be taken as “an exchange of prisoners”. The two sides will against violators, starting with the immediate suspension meet again today to finalize the mechanism on how of social aid allowances they had been getting and end- and when the exchange will take place, Matari said. ing with prosecuting them to reclaim the sums involved, “The Yemeni government is committed to release all in addition to holding ministry officials involved in facili- the prisoners as per the agreement,” he said. Matari tating such violations legally accountable. “A special team estimated that their number is in the “thousands”, investigating social aid detected the violations and is still but the rebel source said there may be only hun- working on unearthing new cases,” Subaih added, noting dreds of prisoners involved. KUWAIT: UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (center left) is seen at a meeting of a joint Yemeni that statistics on these violations were “scary” and Continued on Page 13 working group yesterday. — KUNA involved various forms of manipulations of public funds. Continued on Page 13 MPs defer debate on oil strike Recommendations passed over flying gravel By B Izzak The Assembly also agreed to delay a probe request into the Public Authority B’desh hangs KUWAIT: The National Assembly yester- for Applied Education and Training’s day decided to postpone a scheduled overtime policy demanded by the head top Islamist debate on last month’s strike by thou- of the budgets committee MP Adnan sands of Kuwaiti oil workers for two Abdulsamad, claiming deliberate squan- weeks until the return of acting oil minis- dering of public funds. He also threat- for war crimes ter Anas Al-Saleh, who is travelling with ened not to pass the authority’s budget the prime minister. Thousands of Kuwaiti for the current fiscal year unless the DHAKA: Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader oil workers observed work stoppages for probe is launched to establish if financial Motiur Rahman Nizami today for war crimes com- three days last month to demand that violations had been committed. The mitted during the 1971 war of independence to authorities do not cut any of their delay came at the request of the govern- break away from Pakistan, the law minister said, in a salaries, benefits and incentives. The oil ment, which said it wants to study the move that could draw an angry reaction from his sector trade union officials are still dis- issue before agreeing to the probe. supporters. Nizami, head of the Jamaat-e-Islami par- cussing the issue with the government. Continued on Page 13 DHAHRAN: Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser chats with colleagues before ty, was hanged at Dhaka Central jail after the addressing visiting journalists at the company headquarters yesterday. — AFP Supreme Court rejected his final plea against a death sen- tence imposed by a special tri- bunal for genocide, rape and Aramco to expand as orchestrating the massacre of top intellectuals during the war. oil demand growing Nizami, 73, a former legisla- tor and minister, was hanged at DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia: State oil giant energy, industry and mineral resources. 12.01 am local time, Law Saudi Aramco, which could soon become Now, with oil demand “increasing”, Nasser Minister Anisul Haq told the world’s largest listed company, will said Saudi Aramco “will meet the call”, not- Reuters. Thousands of extra keep expanding despite low crude prices, ing that the company which has a police and border guards were Motiur Nizami its president said yesterday. “Saudi monopoly on the kingdom’s production deployed in Dhaka and other Aramco will continue to expand,” Amin Al- pumped an average of 10.2 million barrels major cities to tighten security. Officials formally Nasser told reporters during a tour of the per day (bpd) last year. Production at read the verdict to Nizami on Monday night after he company’s headquarters on Saudi Arabia’s Shaybah oilfield is increasing, he said. “We was brought to Dhaka Central Jail from a prison out- Gulf coast in Dhahran, where it drilled its are putting 250,000 barrels (per day) on side the capital, senior jailor Jahangir Kabir told first test well in 1935. Even though the stream” at the field in the east. reporters. The Islamist leader did not say then current situation “is challenging, it is an Bloomberg News reported last month whether he would seek any clemency, Kabir said, excellent opportunity for growth”, said that Aramco will complete an expansion and prisoners are normally given a 24-hour window after verdict publication to formally apply. KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and Minister of Nasser, as the industry worldwide reels of the Shaybah field by the end of May, Continued on Page 13 Public Works Ali Al-Omair are seen during a parliamentary session yester- from the collapse in oil prices. allowing the world’s largest exporter to day. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat As part of the Saudi Vision 2030 plan maintain total capacity at 12 million bpd. unveiled last month, the OPEC kingpin The move will see Shaybah’s capacity rise announced it will sell less than five per- to one million bpd from 750,000. Nasser cent of Aramco in what officials say will said he expected a balance in supply and Trump: London mayor exception to ban be the world’s largest ever initial public demand in world markets “toward the offering. Proceeds from the sale will con- end of the year, (or the) first quarter next Khan slams ‘ignorant’ views tribute to creating the biggest govern- year”. “There will be a requirement for ment investment fund in the world, with WASHINGTON: US presidential hopeful Donald Trump major producers” to increase output in a value of $2 trillion, whose profits can has said he would make an exception for London’s new line with “the prospect of additional provide an alternative to plunging oil Muslim mayor after he proposed banning all Muslims demand”, he said. revenues. “We are still doing a lot of from entering the United States, the New York Times analysis” related to commercial and legal Asked what concern he had about a reported, but an unconvinced Sadiq Khan yesterday issues and “the options available for us in return of US shale to the market as prices slammed Trump’s “ignorant” view of Islam. Trump, the pre- terms of listing”, whether in the kingdom near $50 a barrel, he said that “of course” sumed Republican presidential candidate, proposed a ban or internationally, Nasser said, adding as the price rises, additional production on Muslims entering the country in December, days after that this “will take time”. will come on stream, either conventional terrorists killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California. A public listing by Saudi Aramco would or not. “But it will take time,” he said. Khan, elected London mayor on Saturday, had make it the first flotation of a major state- Globally, Saudi Aramco is seeking new expressed worries that he would not be able to visit the United States were Trump elected in November.
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