[1] His career has been marred by legal troubles; in March 2021, the Kuwaiti ministerial court ordered his arrest on charges of embezzling public funds.

[12] In November 2023, Khaled Al Jarrah was convicted by Kuwait’s highest court for embezzlement of public funds and sentenced to 7 years in jail.

[2] In July 2020, US Department of Justice prosecutors alleged in an asset forfeiture filing[13] that Khaled Al-Jarrah and two others set up unauthorized accounts in the name of Kuwait's Military Attaché Office in London.

They then allegedly funded these unauthorized accounts with tens of million of dollars, pounds, and Euros of Kuwaiti public money, and used it for their own purposes.

[14][15] Al Sabah, known when he visited the U.S.,as "Fernando", is also well known in the US as a liltigant of multiple lawsuits that were engineered by his former partner, disbarred lawyer David Leonard Ross.