Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah

In November 2019, Kuwaiti Minister of Defense Sheikh Nasser Al Sabah filed a complaint with the Kuwaiti Attorney General regarding alleged embezzlement of Kuwaiti public funds held at the Kuwait military attaché office in London. Both Khaled Al Jarrah and Nasser Al Sabah were subsequently dismissed in their roles as minister of interior and minister of defense, respectively.[9] The Public Prosecutor in turn referred the report to the ministerial court for investigation, which issued a gag order preventing Kuwaiti media from reporting on the case.

In July 2020, US Department of Justice prosecutors alleged in an asset forfeiture filing[10] that Khaled Al-Jarrah and two others set up unauthorized accounts in the name of Kuwait's Military Attaché Office in London. They then allegedly funded these unauthorized accounts with tens of million of dollars, pounds, and Euros of Kuwaiti public money, and used it for their own purposes. According to U.S. prosecutors, Khaled Al-Jarrah transferred $104 million of the misappropriated Kuwaiti funds to California banks between 2012 and 2015, with some transfers falsely described as for Kuwaiti military purposes. The U.S. claims the money was also spent to buy The Mountain Beverly Hills, as well as a $6 million penthouse, and another $13 million Beverly Hills property, which the Justice Department is also attempting to seize. Victorino Noval and sons, as well as Samir El Mahallawy (who introduced Khaled to Noval) are named in the lawsuit alleging fraud.[11][12]

In March 2021, the Kuwaiti ministerial court ordered the detention of Khaled Al Jarrah, who was arrested and imprisoned.[13]

Al Sabah, known when he visited the U.S.,as "Fernando", is also well known in the US as a liltigant of multiple lawsuits that were engineered by his former partner, disbarred lawyer David Leonard Ross. Ross was fired when he was caught stealilng a yacht, claiming it was for Al Sabah's company, AWAL. [14] Case # 20STCV19934.