Less than two weeks after the Cabinet approved two draft decrees amending provisions of the Civil and Commercial Procedures and Bankruptcy Laws to reintroduce the system of arresting debtors unable to repay their debts, the General Administration of Sentences Enforcement at the Ministry of Justice revealed that, in the first half of 2024, a total of 2,140,417 creditors had submitted requests to impose executive seizures on debtor properties held by others. These requests followed final court rulings in favor of the creditors to recover owed money.
According to the General Administration of Sentences Enforcement, 42,885 cars were seized for this reason during the same period. There were 43,290 travel ban cases, with 25,149 of these having their bans lifted after collecting a total of KD 6,183,290.
The statistics also showed that the total number of various procedures carried out by the administration reached 4,460,069 during the first half of 2024. The procedures for requesting executive seizure of debtor assets held by others accounted for the largest portion at 48%, while the procedures for opening an alimony file and “reopening a file” made up the smallest percentages at 0.01% and 0.02%, respectively.
Additionally, the total number of procedures in travel ban departments amounted to 100,323 in the first half of 2024. The travel ban orders due to debt represented the largest segment, constituting about 43.2% of the total, with 43,290 cases. When comparing the procedures in the travel ban departments between the first half of 2024 and the same period in 2023, the statistics showed a 31.7% increase in the total number of procedures, mainly due to a rise in actions across most sections.
