Dubai: Kuwait’s Public Prosecution has ordered the arrest of Islamist former PM Mubarak Al Duwailah over leaked conversations with the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Al Qabas Arabic daily newspaper said on Wednesday.
Late last month, the pro-Islamist Al Duwailah and Hakim Al Mutairi, former secretary general of Kuwait’s Salafi Movement, were referred to the Public Prosecution due to the audio leaks during their meeting with Gaddafi.
They were later released after being interrogated by the State Security Agency over the leaked recordings with the late Libyan leader.
Al Duwailah is also accused of circulating fake news and slandering Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah after statements in which he claimed that he had informed the Emir and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz about his talks with Gaddafi.
The audio leaks, revealing a plot to undermine security and cause instability in the Gulf region and Egypt, were circulated in late June by Qatari dissident Khalid Al Hail, who lives in London.
Sheikh Ali Al Jarrah Al Sabah, Minister of Emiri Diwan Affairs, denied statements made by Al Duwailah, in which he claimed that he conveyed to Emir Sheikh Sabah what happened between him and Qaddafi. Al Jarrah stressed that the remarks made by Al Duwailah that he had briefed Kuwait’s Emir regarding his meeting with Gaddafi as “totally untrue”.
