Several people were sentenced to prison on Monday by the Kuwaiti judiciary in a case of false accusations of drug possession targeting a Lebanese doctor in Kuwait, according to local medias. Found guilty, defendants were sentenced to 5 years in prison.

The Court of Cassation in Kuwait thus sentenced to prison two soldiers, a Kuwaiti female doctor, an Iraqi woman, and two people whose nationality was not specified. They are accused "of having plotted to have a Lebanese doctor (a dentist according to the daily al-Jarida, ed.) arrested, in a fabricated case against him, accusing him of possession of narcotics, as well as falsifying an official document," according to a statement from the Kuwaiti prosecutor's office, cited by several media outlets.

The Lebanese Foreign Affairs Ministry was not reachable for comment on this still unclear matter.

Kuwaiti media specified that the two soldiers, identified as agents of the Interior Ministry, were tasked with "arresting" the victim after pretending to find drugs that one of them had placed in his car, with the aim of getting him convicted and likely expelled, in collusion with the other suspects. According to al-Jarida, one of the two agents reported the other, claiming that his colleague had placed the illicit substances in the doctor's car.

The motivation behind this case would be a dispute between the Kuwaiti doctor, whose identity has also not been revealed, and her Lebanese colleague. It was at her request that the attempt to expel the latter was initiated. To obtain the drugs, she reportedly conspired with an Iraqi nurse working in the same clinic, who also involved her husband, who knew one of the two soldiers. The narcotics were thus delivered to the agent in question, who placed them in the victim's car before staging a search and arresting him. Confronted by the judge questioning him, this suspect denounced the other protagonists in the case, according to al-Jarida, leading to the prosecution of the entire group.