Hawally securitymen arrested 12 Asian expatriates for gambling inside a flat. According to security sources.
when the Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Public Security Affairs Major General Ibrahim Al- Tarrah received information about a group of expatriates gambling inside their apartment, a security team was formed to investigate.
After confirming the information and taking necessary measures, securitymen raided the apartment and arrested 12 expatriates of various Asian nationalities. When questioned, they confessed that they have been gambling since the 1st of Ramadan.
Securitymen confiscated gambling tools and money from the apartment. The suspects were arrested and referred with the items to the concerned authorities for necessary legal action.
Source : Arabtimes
Gambling in Kuwait
Kuwait has strict betting laws following the Sharia, islamic law that governs the country. A prosperous country, situated along the Arabian Gulf, The residents of this great city are employed principally in petroleum and related industries.
There are Islamic countries such as the UAE that have relaxed their gambling laws to a considerable extent, but Kuwait is not one of them and as such severely bans gambling in its various forms. However, Kuwait has a large expatriate community and surprisingly, Kuwaitis are in the minority in their own land, and constitute only one thirds of the population, the rest being foreigners. Many of these expats do not even have the same kind of belief as the natives have.The police are aware of this, and extremely eager to implement the anti-gambling laws of their country and close down these underhanded operations. In fact most of the gambling going on in Kuwait is in the form mobile operations, like in parking garages. Needless to say, all these forms of illegal gambling are quite unprotected.
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