KUWAIT

Kuwait's Prosecutor General Clears KPC Officials in Santa Fe Purchase 

The Kuwait Prosecutor General has completed his investigation of financial trading circumstances surrounding the $2.5bn purchase in 1981 by the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation of the US firm Santa Fe and declared on 29 December that "no financial manipulations were involved... in the purchase" of the firm. The Prosecutor General's statement also affirmed that "no conclusive evidence was...