Ex-premier's graft case a test of justice in oil-rich Kuwait

FILE - In this July 20, 2016 file photo, Kuwaiti Minister of Defense Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah al-Sabah arrives to attend the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL Meeting, hosted by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Kuwait's justice system is testing government pledges to hold ministers accountable for $790 million gone missing from the Defense Ministry fund years ago. The ministerial court ordered two former ministers and royal family members, Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak Al Sabah and his ally, former Interior Minister Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah Al Sabah, detained April 2021 in Kuwait's Central Prison over their suspected misuse of the ministry's funds. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 3, 2014, file photo, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheik Jaber Al Mubarak Al Sabah, center, talks during a meeting in Beijing, China. Kuwait was abuzz with the question as citizens on social media demanded to know the whereabouts of their 79-year-old former prime minister. He'd been ordered detained in an unprecedented move last April 2021, over the alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars from a military aid fund. (AP Photo/Wang Zhao, Pool, File)