Cairo: Court of Kuwait had handed down one Syrian immigrant ten years in jail on the charges of money laundering and fraud over phony real estate deals in Saudi Arabia, as per the local media reports. 

The Criminal Court issued the verdict that also ordered the defendant to pay a fine of KD3 million, Al-Rai added. The ruling can be appealed.

The man was actually charged with money laundering and fraud in which he sold a ‘phantom hotel’ in the Saudi city of Mecca for KD3 million to a group of Kuwait investors and flats in the Saudi city of Medina. 

According to the reports, the bogus deal was cut through many subsidiaries linked to a company owned by an ex-Kuwait lawmaker blamed for money laundering worth KD188 million through fake projects in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. 

The ranking of the Syrian refugee problem checks all others in recent history. Thirteen million people have been replaced by the Syrian war — additionally the entire population of Switzerland — with millions now spread across the Middle East and Europe. In all, about half of Syria’s pre-war population has been displaced.

As per the 2020 data, Turkey was the country that hosted the highest amount of Syrian refugees.

Ranking of the most prominent Syrian refugee-hosting countries in 2020.

About 13.5 million Syrians are forcibly displaced, more than half of the country’s population. Of these, 6.8 million are refugees and asylum-seekers who have fled the country. (Asylum-seekers are people who’ve applied for refugee status but have not yet been granted it.)

Population: Turkey has been host to the world’s largest refugee population since 2014. There are 3.6 million Syrians under temporary protection and around 330,000 refugees and asylum seekers under international protection. Afghan nationals have been the leading International Protection applicants in Turkey since 2019.