(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY March 6: MP Abdullah Al-Tureiji has requested the Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh to take instant measures on the case involving a client who lost KD 8 million in his bank account after a female employee of the bank withdrew and transferred the money to her personal local and foreign accounts reports Al- Rai Daily In a parliamentary question Dr Al-Tureiji considered the issue to be of significant danger because it is recurrent. He called for implementing strict control measures in the banks as it is becoming a habit for bank employees to embezzle money from the accounts of unsuspecting clients.
He also called on the control bodies to explain the manner in which the perpetrator managed to manipulate the accounts adding ''we do not exempt the Central Bank from its responsibility and monitoring role to sanction a neutral body in coordination with the bank where the crime occurred to facilitate investigations to determine lapses''. MP Al-Tureiji required the minister if he is aware of the incident must be provided information regarding the name of the victim (client) the perpetrator (bank employee) the name of the bank and the number of the case registered with the Public Prosecution in addition to the procedures taken so far to deal with the situation.
Also the MP requested information as to whether or not investigations conducted divulged other accounts that may have been tampered with and if there might be a cover up in an attempt to protect the identity of the perpetrator and bank itself or the Central Bank has approved request by the bank to appoint an independent body to determine the manner in which the crime was pulled off and the number of accounts that may have been manipulated.
Meanwhile in an unrelated incident MP Al-Tureiji asked the Minister of Finance Anas Al-Saleh about a quantity of alcohol confiscated at Kuwait International Airport and the intervention of a customs official that led to freeing of the smuggler. Al-Tureiji noted the alcohol was smuggled into the country via the airport inside two bags belonging to an individual who arrived from a GCC country on March 2 2015. He noted the suspect was freed after a customs official reportedly intervene to release the owner of the bags who ended up signing a pledge not repeat the act again.
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