Abu Dhabi: Twenty-five influential Saudis are on state security intelligence radars in connection with a washing scandal in Kuwait, Saudi media reported.
Kuwait’s prosecutor accused 10 influential Kuwaiti money launderers and ordered the freezing of accounts of Boutiqaat, one of the largest cosmetics and fashion e-commerce corporations in the Middle East.
Boutiqaat’s co-founder Abdul Wahab Al Essa is listed as a suspect. Most social media influencers who are charged sell their products on the Boutiqaat website.
For their part, Emirati influencers withdrew almost en masse from Boutiqaat, claiming that their appointments with the giant e-commerce company damaged and had nothing to do with it.
According to the UAE Penal Code, money laundering is a crime for the security of the state punishable by life imprisonment.
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