Al-Emadi will deal with a criminal trial following his 2021 arrest over embezzlement claims.
Qatar’s previous financing minister Ali Sherif al-Emadi will deal with a criminal trial following his 2021 arrest over embezzlement accusations.
Al-Emadi was jailed in May 2021 however bit has actually been revealed about his case. He will deal with trial, with an undefined variety of others, over the charges, the state-run Qatar News Agency (QNA) stated in a brief declaration on Sunday.
“Since proof drawn out from the case files showed that the implicated devoted the criminal offenses credited them, the Attorney General released an order to refer the implicated to the Criminal Court to penalize them for the criminal offenses credited them, that included bribery, appropriation of public cash, abuse of workplace, abuse of power, damage to public cash and cash laundering,” the QNA report stated.
The report did not elaborate on just how much cash the previous minister is implicated of taking.
Al-Emadi increased to prominence in the Gulf Arab emirate as the existing emir rose the throne and after supervising the change of Qatar National Bank into the biggest loan provider in the Middle East.
As soon as among Qatar’s most effective authorities, al-Emadi likewise acted as chairman of the bank, on the board of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund and as president of the executive board of Qatar Airways.
Al-Emadi has actually not commented openly on the case.
Reuters news company reported that Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani has stated the examination was connected to his capability as financing minister, and not to his posts at the sovereign fund or the bank.
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