2023-12-11T06:05:50+00:00
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/ Today, Monday, the former head of the Kuwaiti State Security Service, Athbi Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, returned to his country after an absence that lasted 6 years, after he was sentenced to five years in prison for his participation in the “Fintas Group.”
Sheikh Athbi Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is a member of the ruling family in Kuwait, and the third son of Sheikh Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, a retired officer in the commando forces in the Kuwaiti army.
On May 31, 2016, he was sentenced to five years in prison for his participation in the “Fintas Group,” but he disappeared before the sentence was implemented. His name was included in the Amiri Pardon Decree issued on January 17, 2023.
The “Al Majlis” account, affiliated with the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information, published a video clip on the x platform, in which the former head of the Kuwaiti State Security Service appears, receiving a crowd at the airport.
It is noteworthy that the “Al-Fintas Group” or Al-Fintas Group is a Kuwaiti group on the “WhatsApp” application that became famous on April 2, 2015, when most Kuwaitis received a message on their mobile phones through the application from an unknown number starting with the key of a country other than Kuwait, in which it talked about a conspiracy being hatched against the state to overthrow the regime. Judgment and judiciary.
Various sentences were issued against the defendants in the case on charges of “deliberately broadcasting false and tendentious news and rumors abroad about the internal situation of the country, and violating, by any means of publicity, the respect due to judges.”