“I am clean … but officials are not clean!” This is what the Bangladesh MP Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul said in the Kuwait Public Prosecution investigations after he was charged for on human trafficking by selling visas, money laundering and bribes, reports Arab Times.
Papul denied his accusation of bribe, justifying his payment of bribes, saying “I have 9,000 workers in Kuwait, and 100% worthy tenders. No one has complained about my achievement of work, but some officials are stopping my tenders, only way of passing them is by paying the money, so what do I do in such case ?! “
Sources stated that the Bangladeshi MP, in order to defend himself and deny the charges against him, said in the investigations that his companies own equipment that other companies do not possess, as evidence of the quality of the services he provides to the government agencies contracted with, but the whole problem lies with some officials.
Regarding the time the case needs to refer it to the criminal court, the source replied: “Such an issue, with the disclosure of names, personalities and seriousness of charges, needs a long time to ensure that no official or citizen who had a hand in it was left without accountability.”
Papul has been in jail since his arrest by the Kuwait Prosecution Office four weeks ago. The lawmaker was charged with money laundering and human trafficking.