AFP: Kuwait foreign minister quits over graft case: report

Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Sabah, a senior member of the ruling family, has resigned, local media reported Tuesday, amid tensions over a graft scandal involving several MPs.

Citing "high ranking" sources, Al-Anbaa newspaper said Sheikh Mohammad, who has been foreign minister in the oil-rich Gulf state since 2003, "submitted his resignation on Monday and did not attend the cabinet meeting."

"The minister preferred to resign from a government that does not carry out true reforms regarding the (illegal) multi-million bank deposits," the term used to describe the scandal, the daily cited the sources as saying.

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