Ashraf AboArafe
Anas Al-Saleh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Minister of State and Minister of State for Kuwaiti Cabinet Affairs, said that combating human trafficking and breaches of the residence law is one of the issues related to national security and dysfunctional demographics in the state.
Al-Saleh said – in a press statement, last Wednesday – that there is a high-level government coordination in this regard to monitor companies and workers in violation, and who contributed within government agencies to the spread of this phenomenon.
He added that, based on the mandate of the Kuwaiti Council of Ministers, a working group was formed to provide the necessary data and information, and to take all legal measures against fake labors and fight false residency dealers, as well as the necessary preventive measures to prevent such violations.
In this context, Al-Saleh disclosed that a company, its owner and its workers were seized, possessing a contract with a government agency and registered in its file more than two thousand workers, and it has 577 workers in violation of the residence law, who have been blackmailed by the company to obtain additional amounts.
He pointed out that the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior referred the file and the accused to the Public Prosecution, after completing the investigation with a number of violators who are in a shelter (liver), how they obtained residence, and the amounts paid to the company to enter Kuwait.
Al-Saleh pointed out that coordination has been made with the Minister of Social Affairs;Minister of State for Economic Affairs Maryam Al-Aqil, for the General Authority of the Kuwaiti Workforce to take its actions by liquidating the financial guarantee provided by the company to the authority, or the bank guarantee, to pay the costs of deporting the violating labors.
