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– The people of Kuwait are educated and have high morals. They do not allow the right of any person to exceed the limits within which he is allowed to speak. The First Deputy responded, during the interview on the “Theater of Life” program on “Al-Rai” and the “ROD” platform, to a question about the feeling that the ceiling of criticism has decreased in Kuwait, even though Kuwait was an example of the ceiling of freedom of the press in that it has a greater margin than other countries, by saying: “To be honest with you and me, freedom today exists in Kuwait, but freedom is in order. When we first had freedom, we had chaos and Behavior that does not exist…and all the countries of the world were criticizing Kuwait. There is freedom with respect.” He added: “Today there is freedom. Tell me, is there a newspaper that they have censored to prevent what writers write?” No, but people have begun to become aware of the chaos that existed at the beginning, the indifference that exists. I mean, let us tell you, you are organized, nothing more, nothing less. Al-Yousef stressed, “Public opinion has been directed to respect people. This means that the first time you make a mistake against all existing people, you make a mistake, that is, about countries with which we have relations. I mean, I am not telling you friendship, fraternal relations, etc., and you come and make mistakes against them. Today, we will not allow anyone to exceed the imposed limit, just as we ask of neighboring countries – or let us say any country – the people who are there with them do not violate the rights of Kuwait. The same is true for us, the countries that have us.” We will not allow our citizens to be exposed to our relations with it. We understand each other, but we must respect each other.” He continued, “We were raised with morals. Let us tell you, perhaps I am older than you. In the sixties, this was not what you felt after the invasion. Or let us say in the nineties and in the two thousand, and let us say at the end of the two thousand twenty-twenty-one and twenty-two. This freedom is neither controlled nor disciplined, and does not represent the people of Kuwait… This forgery is the money of the people.” These passports that were given unjustly led to this chaos and led to disrespect. The people of Kuwait are well-educated and raised with high morals. They do not allow the right of any person to exceed the limits within which he is allowed to speak. However, this is one of the matters that falsified the passports and the people who took my passports unlawfully led to what we were in, and thank God it has now ended. A Kuwaiti abroad, Al-Yousef said: “From what I have followed during the past two years, the opposition abroad does not exceed five or six people. Why do five or six people live abroad? They have not lived abroad and become expatriates without having problems and issues at home.” He added: “The second category is the one we can talk about who are illegal residents. Kuwaitis do not exceed five or six people,” adding, “The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, did not approve of him. Do you want a person living today who lives without mistakes?” No, do you want him to live while all people are satisfied with him? This is impossible… I mean, I am telling you that we are working hard, and if we make a mistake, we will admit that we made a mistake and correct our mistakes.” Al-Yousef explained that “the opposition has existed in Kuwait since ancient times and is present in all the Gulf countries. It is present in all of our countries. Bahrain has opponents, Saudi Arabia has opponents, the Emirates has opponents, Qatar has opponents, and Oman has opponents. I am meeting with the interior ministers. We all have opponents abroad, but have you paid attention to one percent or less than one percent? Who are the people of the state to say this is an opposition? Let me pay attention to the people who are present and living in Kuwait, more importantly than I pay attention to the people who live abroad and have problems. Believe me, if they did not have problems, they would not live outside Kuwait.” Two corruption cases occupy the attention of His Highness and me – every week we discover 4-5 cases of money laundering – His Highness, may God prolong his life, said: “First you apply the law to my children and then it applies to people – I have clear instructions: There is no door that cannot be opened… There is no door that you cannot investigate with the people behind it.” Al-Yousef touched on the anti-corruption file, revealing “two major corruption cases in Kuwait, and this is the concern of His Highness, and the concern of me.” Regarding the file of money laundering and celebrities that he talked about last year, and that there is a “Ritz” but in a special way, Al-Yousef said: “I think all of Kuwait feels in the clear fight against corruption, and we still have the Ritz!” We do not have the Ritz building inside Kuwait, but we have a central prison in which there are celebrities, and a large number of celebrities have been summoned… and we are opening their files. We have a working financial investigation unit, one of the most distinguished units operating in Kuwait to detect money laundering… If I tell you, money laundering in Kuwait is discovering three, four, or five cases a week, whether exaggerated or large, and a large portion of them are in prison… I mean, you are talking about twenty, thirty, forty, and there are a hundred million money laundering operations, all of them. They are in prison, some of whom are arrested and some of whom have been sentenced.” He added, “Corruption is different and exists in Kuwait. Bribery is imposed on employees working in the government, and today I am in control. By the time the episode is broadcast, there will be two major corruption cases that we have in Kuwait, and these are of the concern of His Highness and my personal concern. I mean, unfortunately, we have discovered cases of bribery and cases of tampering with the accounts of employees who work in the state, but it is possible that today we are in the process of investigating them, but the crime With the help of God, may God bless them.” As for whether they were former officials, Al-Yousef replied: “Unfortunately, there are people who are still with me, and there are people who are former officials, right, and senior officials and junior officials, and some of them are fugitives, meaning they know themselves.” He pointed out that “since the reform machine began, anyone who knows himself to be corrupt has fled Kuwait. I mean, I am talking to you, not one, two, or three have escaped from Kuwait, and they are the ones who are the leaders of these people.” This,” he added, adding, “They implicated the people who were present, bribed them and ruined their debts, and today they live abroad, but we will not remain silent about them. We are filing cases against them and we will demand of them the red notice in Interpol. I mean, God Almighty grants respite and does not neglect.” He continued, “(Come, come) and everyone knows himself, and the law will be applied. And I said it and I say it to His Highness, may God prolong his life. He said, “The first it was applied to my children, the first it was applied to my children, then it was applied to the people,” meaning the line became open to summon the largest people present. Today, there is no person greater than the law in Kuwait. This is what encouraged all the men of the Ministry of the Interior, and I am unable to thank those people who tolerated me. I mean, I have clear instructions: There is no door that cannot be opened, there is no door that you cannot investigate with the people behind it,” adding, “I have honesty men who just needed encouragement and support, and they are receiving support from the highest authority in the country, which is His Highness, and this is what encourages us all. You see us working 24 hours a day and sitting, racing against time, to clean Kuwait of these types.” The experience of Saudi prisons… is honorable. In response to a question about “reducing” life imprisonment and giving the prisoner a glimmer of hope to return to life, Al-Yousef said: “If you allow me, do not say I reduced it… I did not reduce it, and I have no right to reduce anything… I have a permanent visit to prisons, meaning I go to prisons not less than once a month, I live with them.” He added: “I tell you, some of them may be oppressed, but oppressed does not mean they did not commit a crime… but some of them entered prison at the age of 16.” A year of youthful recklessness, which led to you being judged.. But does a person who is 16 years old today if he is 42 or 43 years old have the same mentality? After I lived with them and saw them and met them, I started asking about the rulings in the Gulf countries or in the Arab countries that I visited. I found that there is no such thing as life imprisonment, which means death in prison, except here in Kuwait… Of course, I researched it more than once.” He pointed out that when he visits Arab and Gulf countries he asks to visit prisons, which is something that his hosts sometimes find surprising. In this context, he revealed his visit to a prison in Saudi Arabia, saying, “You are here to meet me and you are from the Kingdom that is dear to us. I visited Abu Nayef, the Minister of Interior (His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef Al Saud). He invited me to dinner. I finished dinner at 9:30. He said to me, ‘Where are you going?’” I said to him, “By God, if you allow me to go and visit a prison, at ten o’clock at night, the delegation with me wouldn’t say that at ten o’clock we will visit a prison?” I have a charade… I saw something that honors any country in which this treatment takes place and any country in which there is prison.” Al-Yousef added that what he saw in Saudi Arabia “made me go back and see the prison we have… There are people there who cannot walk… There are people who do not see (my uncle).. There are people who were admitted at 16 years old and turned 40 years old. I went to His Highness’s office and Fahd told me to go and see the Gulf countries, I saw the Gulf countries and I saw the Arab countries, and I sought help. With the expert and legal advisor, Dr. (Adel) Al-Tabtabai, with His Highness, he supported me in what I was going to do, in the right of His Highness.” He continued, “May God grant him a long life, as he may have the kindest hearts that exist for the people of Kuwait, whether resident or Kuwaiti, from the people of Kuwait. When I told him, he told me to finish and look at them on the basis of the one who has spent 20 years and whose behavior is good.” Compliance with the law reduced revenues from traffic violations.. despite their doubling. Al-Yousef commented on what is said that the new traffic law was a “collection.” He said, “My personal opinion today is that there are Americans who visited Kuwait and their attention was caught by the traffic and people’s commitment to enforcing the law,” adding, “We increased the cameras and the law increased the penalties. I told you that and I will tell you it again: Now I was expecting the revenue that would come from traffic violations to triple. I was surprised.” I found less than the year before the law was implemented, perhaps 50 percent of the number that was before the law was implemented, and this means one thing that people adhered to the law and it was implemented 100 percent, and there is no person today in Kuwait who does not have the traffic law applied to them.” Al-Yousef welcomed Al-Olayani in Kuwait and Al-Rai, and Al-Olayani responded: You are a partner in success… and our episode is still resounding. Al-Yousef welcomed Al-Olayani at the beginning of the episode, saying, “May God bless you… God and the Prophet will salute you, God willing… God bless you in Kuwait and may God bless you with Al-Rai TV in the second year.” Al-Olayani responded: May God bless you, you are a partner in success with us and our episode is still resounding until now… Thank you again for answering the invitation despite my knowledge. With your many preoccupations more than before… Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Al-Yousef: May God bless you, but I hope that God will grant me success in this episode and that we will continue the journey that we started during the era of His Highness, and achieve the ambitions and hopes that His Highness and the Kuwaiti people seek. Mishaal Al-Ahmad…the grandson. Sheikh Mishaal Ahmad Al-Mishaal Al-Sabah, the grandson of Sheikh Fahd Al-Yousef, participated in the last part of the episode, where his colleague Al-Olayani took the opportunity to reveal the ambition of the young sheikh. Al-Olayani asked Sheikh Mishaal about his ambition when he grows up, and he replied that he wanted to become a policeman. While he responded to a question about the team he supports, it is “Salmiya.” Al-Youssef commented on the grandson’s participation, saying: “It was not in the plan (for him to come with me when filming the episode), but because his mother is traveling, he came with me.”
