Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Majed Dabbas - Jordanian official sources on Sunday said that the general prosecution have written to the Interpol to help in collecting information about the former chairman of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Corporation (JPMC) Walid Kurdi's movable and immovable assets around the World.
Sources told Ammon News that Kurdi who fled to the UK, was seen in Amman "several times" in the past months.
Same sources told Ammon reporter that the treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between Jordan and Britain was a "special treaty" to fast track the return "only" of the radical Muslim cleric Mahmoud Othman, known as Abu Qatada to Jordan from Britain, contradicts claims by Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said, in remarks during the House session last June, that this agreement serves Jordan’s interests and that the government will use it to ensure the return of criminals.
A Royal Decree was issued last June endorsing the Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between Jordan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The Senate's Legal Affairs Committee approved the Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters between Jordan and the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland as referred from the Lower House of Parliament.
The treaty, approved by the Lower House earlier in the month, paves the way for bringing back Jordanians who have committed crimes and are residing in Britain.
Previously, Amman Criminal Court sentenced the former chairman of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC) to twenty two and a half years and fined him over JD 253 million in the high profile corruption case.
The court also sentenced Walid Kurdi to an additional 15 years in prison, and imposed a fine of JD 31 million on charges related to Phosphate shipping contracts allegedly made by the defendant.
Kurdi is being tried in absentia and was indicted with ten counts of "abuse of office" and embezzlement charges allegedly to have taken place during his term in the company from 2008 until 2012.
After issuing the sentence, with a total of 37.5 years and over JD 280 million in fines, the court clarified that Kurdi would have a retrial if he turned himself in.
Kurdi, who was the CEO of the JPMC until late 2012, reportedly left Jordan to London in January 2012 and has not returned to Jordan since.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) seized Kurdi's assets in December 2012. Kurdi reportedly refused to appear before a parliamentary probe committee back in February 2012 in part of a probe into corruption charges in the sale and privatization of the company in 2006.
Kurdi submitted his resignation on march 17, 2013 from his position as CEO of the public joint stock corporation.
The fines reportedly equals the amount of losses incurred by JPMC as a result of Kurdi's actions during his term in the public shareholding company.