Some of the Main People Involved

Leading the next generation of Al-Mulla people who presume they are entitled to massive wealth because of their family name, Talal took over as CEO in 2018 with one key qualification: his family name.

When the UN report was issued in 2023 in favour of Samih Bowles and against the State of Kuwait, the government of Kuwait convinced Anwar Al-Mulla to effectively retire from all involvement in the Al-Mulla Group and hand everything over to his annointed successor.

But, nothing has changed.

He threatened me, along with Nazih, that I must give false evidence if I had to testify about the Ayad case.

When I testified honestly and the revenge campaign of Al-Mulla started against me, it was Isam who signed my letter of dismissal and personally handed it to me on 15 January 2009 and it was also Isam who signed and filed a complaint of work absence against me with the Ministry of Social Affairs on 17 February 2009, saying I had been absent from work since 15 January.

Isam also later conspired to illegaly obtain my bank statements.

I personally witnessed Al-Mulla giving Col Huwaidi bribes on a regular basis through free cars and services. In return, he made lots of problems and bureaucracy in the police departments disappear. Most notably, Al-Mulla cars would get their MOT tests stamped on paper, without the vehicles going for any examination.

My problems started when another client discovered a bribe paid via him to Col Huwaidi.

Col Huwaidi had VIP treatment at Al-Mulla. When he came to the showroom, he would go straight upstairs to have tea and coffee with Anwar and Abdullah.

An in-house lawyer at Al-Mulla working under Azmi, I thought Thabet was a friend and on many occasions he treated me as a friend - asking me to get papers for his wife from Egypt at one time.

When my dispute with Al-Mulla started, Thabet turned 180 degrees, with extra garnish. This man actually warned me that a false work absence complaint had been made against me, and took 250 KWD (around 700 Euro) from me to "sort it out". He then promptly turned and informed the police on me so I could be arrested (illegaly). When I finally got the false work absence papers, I saw that it was Thabet who took the file to the corrupt officers at Shuwaikh Police Station.

When the case went to court, Thabet swore, under oath, that he never knew me or met me or ever talked to me. I produced dozens of telephone printouts showing scores of calls between my number and his, but he still kept lying.

Under the patronage of Al-Mulla, Thabet has acquired a powerful standing at Shuwaikh Police station, to the extent that people refer to him as a local boss.

I wrote to him when he was serving as Minister of Finance in 2014. It was about the fraudulent loan AUB had fabriated against me, and the unauthorised release of my bank statements. Both matters were serious enough for him to ask to see me. He was visibly disturbed when he heard my original dispute was with Al-Mulla. What I did not know was that he is married to a neice of Anwar Al-Mulla.

As soon as I told him about my problem with Al-Mulla, he called the police and had them take me from his office to CID headquarters where I was imprisoned and tortured for about 3 weeks, suffering permanent injuries as a result.

Salah Al-Houti owned a Mitsubishi Pajero and was a good friend of the Al-Mulla. When he used to visit to have his car serviced, he would go straight upstairs to have tea and coffee with Anwar and Abdullah. On one occasion I was there and he gave me the keys to his car for the service while he went upstairs, and gave me his mobile number to call him when it was done.

A few years later, Salah Al-Houti was sitting as judge in a case I had against Al-Mulla for making a complaint for work absence against me, one month after they had fired me. Instead of recusing himself, he struck out the claims against Isam Al-Osman (who had personally signed both the dismissal and work absence) and Osman's deputy Faisal Matar, who had filed everything with the authorities, and then ruled that the remaining defendant, who was the clerk who delivered the documents, had just made an innocent mistake.

Fate had her joke, when the Pajero Judge just happened to hand down this perverse judgement, on April Fool's Day (2010).

Got to give credit where it is due and Mr Suleiman, when I reproached him in December 2009 about how AUB can disclose in legal proceedings the bank statements of a client without any authority, he told me exactly how things operate in Kuwait, in words that would prove so true in the years to come:

“We own the courts, and we have a sheikh from the ruling family, Abdullah Jaber AlSabah, who is deputy chairman at AUB, and one phone call from him will shut all doors in your face”.

Indeed Ashraf Suleiman was one of those charged in the case for theft of banking secrecy and came out of it as if nothing happened.

Saving the worst for last: Head of CID for the entire State of Kuwait; that makes him possibly the highest ranking thug-for-hire in the State of Kuwait.

Tabbakh orchestrated a trap for me when his office contacted me in May 2017 and said the great general wanted to carry out a thorough examination of my case. They asked me to go to CID headquarters with "all my papers" and were very precise about ALL my papers.

The entire operation was a violent trick. I was treated quite nicely until after they took all my papers and, at that point, Tabbakh himself ordered, in my presence and to my face, that I should be imprisoned and tortured. It was a gangster operation designed to rob me of my evidence (so I could not pursue my legal rights) and then abuse me in the most horrific way, in order to deter me from pursuing my rights.

To be clear: this was pre-planned and deliberate criminal activity: the head of Kuwaiti CID, using the headquarters of CID, set up a violent trap to try and deprive me of evidence of corruption and fraud by Al-Mulla and AUB, to try and prevent me obtaining justice. CID, and the head of CID, worked to cover up fraud and criminality by senior Kuwaitis, and they imprisoned and tortured the victim of these crimes, just to be sure.

Of course, Tabbakh could not have done this without instructions from higher up in the Ministry of Interior - which is supposed to be about law enforcement, not protecting criminals.

What he lacks in morals and ethics, Tabbakh appears to make up for by moustache grooming