Husain Al-Musallam, president of World Aquatics, may have awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a company owned by his wife and children. Kuwait’s sports authority has referred the case over to the public prosecutor. This comes after the facts that Insidethegames revealed last week.
World Aquatics will probably have to look for a new president. Unless the Aquatics Integrity Unit, founded by Husain Al-Musallam, or the International Olympic Committee and the Ethics Commission of the Olympic Council of Asia (handpicked and controlled by Al-Musallam), can save him.
Al-Musallam still feels reasonably safe in Doha at the World Aquatics Championships, although he has since travelled to Kuwait to attend to urgent matters. Things are getting troublesome for the alleged multiple offender, bribe-payer, and number three co-conspirator in a global criminal case. It is no coincidence that on the sidelines of the World Cup in Doha, Al-Musallam also met with representatives of his new adopted country, Hungary. He even met Hungary’s President Katalin Novák, who has since resigned over a sexual abuse pardon.
Al-Musallam wants to move World Aquatics to Budapest by 2027. It has long been rumoured in the Olympic industry that he has already acquired a Hungarian passport and at least one property there. Many have speculated as to the source of the money used to pay for it and whether the money comes from sports organizations for which Husain Al-Musallam is responsible or even from more illicit sources.
Another questionable event took place on the sidelines of the World Aquatics Championships in Doha: the extraordinary Asian Aquatics Congress, which also dealt with the apparent missing millions.
THE INQUISITOR has obtained video footage of this turbulent meeting in which Al-Musallam attempted to take control and play down the issue of the missing millions. Several rules appear to have been broken at this congress, including a bizarre express election of the leadership of Asia Aquatics, which went in favour of him and his accomplices. We have new documents, but for now, let’s focus on the potential criminal case.
As THE INQUISITOR detailed last week, Husain Al-Musallam is suspected of a criminal offence, this time in his capacity as Director General of the Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC). The amount involved is KWD 3,424,500 (around €10.4 million). Husain Al-Musallam has been linked to a series of suspicious deals. The Kuwaiti, who was exposed in the FIFA criminal case as a bribe-payer and confidant of convicted Olympic sheikh Al-Sabah, has once again been accused of shady dealings.
Al-Musallam is alleged to have awarded part of the state funding for the third Gulf Games in December 2021 to Dynamic General Trading & Contracting, a company owned by his wife, sons and daughters. Another document mentions a company called Dynamic General Trading Import and Export is mentioned. There may be two companies. In a letter dated 13 February 2024, the authorities referred the case to the General Public Prosecutor Office(Source: Ahmad Alsalami on X). Al-Musallam denied any wrongdoing to THE INQUISITOR last week and submitted a letter from the ethics committee of the KOC, which he controls, that supposedly exonerates him. The authenticity of the letter is unclear.
The state sports authority believes the facts are clear enough to open a criminal case.
In the first weeks of February alone, Al-Musallam has been:
• The subject of a complaint that led KOC investigators to alert the head of the NOC to an alleged association with an Olympics-related company.
• Been referred to the KOC’s Ethics Commission.
• Named in a letter to a state minister suggesting an investigation by prosecutors and anti-corruption authorities.
• Forced to deny the allegations, which he told THE INQUISITOR were the result of political intrigue in Kuwait.
• Apparently cleared by the Ethics Commission the day before its organisation’s president informed the Kuwaiti government that Al-Musallam had been referred to the committee for investigation
• Alerted by allegations that millions of Kuwaiti public funds allocated to Asia Aquatics had gone missing.
• Referred to the Public Prosecutor by the sports authority
• At the centre of a highly controversial Asia Aquatics Congress.
There are other questions that urgently need to be answered:
• Has Al-Musallam falsified documents on several occasions?
• Why were confidential conversations within the framework of the OCA secretly recorded? To blackmail his interlocutors?
• Why is he still allowed to hold many high-level positions when there is ample evidence and confessions that he has paid bribes and misused OCA funds?
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