Qatar’s former finance minister Ali Sherif al-Emadi will face a felony trial, stated the state-run Qatar Information Company (QNA) in a brief assertion issued on Sunday (March 19), following his arrest two years in the past over alleged embezzlement. Al-Emadi who served because the minister of finance within the rich Gulf Arab state from 2013 up till his arrest in 2021 will face trial together with plenty of others who’ve been charged with comparable crimes.
The state-run information company with out mentioning the variety of different individuals Al-Emadi and others will face trial over prices of bribery, abuse of place and energy, harm to public funds and cash laundering, reported Reuters. Nevertheless, it’s also unclear whether or not all these accused will face the identical prices or not.
“Since proof extracted from the case paperwork proved that the accused dedicated the crimes ascribed to them, the Lawyer Common issued an order to refer the accused to the Felony Courtroom to punish them for the crimes ascribed to them, which included bribery, appropriation of public cash, abuse of workplace, abuse of energy, harm to public cash and cash laundering,” stated the QNA report, as per Al Jazeera.
Notably, there aren’t lots of particulars launched about Al-Emadi’s arrest together with how a lot cash the previous minister is accused of stealing. The 54-year-old who was arrested in Could 2021 was stripped of his ministerial duties and faraway from the Qatar Funding Company which owns 50 per cent of the Qatar Nationwide Financial institution the place he served as a board member.
Al-Emadi was additionally some of the highly effective officers within the nation previous to his arrest, he was the CEO of the financial institution, on the board of Qatar’s $300 billion sovereign wealth fund and president of the manager board of Qatar Airways. Whereas Al-Emadi has been arrested, he has not been positioned in detention, as per AFP.
Qatar’s Prime Minister and International Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani have beforehand clarified that the investigation into the previous finance minister was associated to his ministerial duties and never his posts on the sovereign fund or the financial institution, reported Reuters. Notably, forward of Al-Emadi’s arrest the Qatari PM had additionally revised the regulation ending immunity from prosecution for ministers.
(With inputs from businesses)
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