VOL. XXXVII

NO. 32

9-MAY-1994

Kuwait

KOTC Trial Moves To Constitutional Court

The Kuwait criminal court ruled on 3 May that the case of allegedembezzlement in the Kuwait Oil Tankers Company (KOTC) should be referred to theconstitutional court in order to determine the constitutionality of the recentdecision by parliament to rescind the Amiri Decree that provides for past orpresent cabinet ministers to stand trial before a special five-judge tribunal.The law, which also allowed cabinet ministers...