Kuwait’s former Minister of Energy Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahd Al-Sabah has been reelected as president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA),despite an arbitration charge pending against him in Switzerland. final November, Sheikh Ahmad had temporarily resigned from his membership of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) after Genevas public prosecutor filed charges against him and four others for misuse of the Swiss judicial system. According to the charges, and Sheikh Ahmad is accused of orchestrating an intricate scheme using falsified video recordings to prove that the former Prime Minister of Kuwait and the Speaker of Parliament were preparing a coup d'état and had stolen public funds. The Kuwaiti allegedly gave broadcast rights of the videos to a shell company which eventually filed a lawsuit claiming the videos were fake. The aim of the scheme was to obtain a ruling by a Swiss judge on the authenticity of the video. The favourable ruling was then presented as evidence in ...
Source: swissinfo.ch