Kuwait- The minister's court sentence former Health Minister Ali Al-Ombaidi to seven years in jail after convicting him of embezzlement during his tenure.
The court also handed down the same jail term to a former ministry undersecretary, a current senior official and an agent of a foreign company after convicting them for squandering public funds.
The court set a KD 10,000 in bail for each convict to suspend the execution of the jail term and ordered them to return the combined sum of KD 81 million ($243 million) to the state.
The minister and officials have been on trial before the special court for the past several months on graft charges.
The minister was grilled by MP Rakan Al-Nasef over alleged financial and administrative violations.
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