27/03/2025
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27/03/2025
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KUWAIT CITY, March 27: The Supreme Committee to Investigate Kuwaiti Citizenship has investigated a case involving an Iranian citizen who fraudulently obtained Kuwaiti citizenship under Article 1.
According to the sources, the Nationality Investigations Department received information suggesting possible forgery. A review of the National Archives revealed that the individual had been referred to the Public Prosecution in 1968 on charges of forging citizenship. The man’s alleged father admitted to falsifying records to add him to his citizenship file. As a result, the father was sentenced to one year in prison and deportation.
Despite this, the Iranian national illegally smuggled his way in Kuwait in 1973. With the help of a National Assembly member, who lobbied the Ministry of Interior on his behalf, his Kuwaiti citizenship was reinstated. At the time, the withdrawal of his citizenship in 1968 was not formally issued through a Council of Ministers decision; instead, authorities merely confiscated his citizenship certificate, imprisoned, and deported him. Following his illegal return, he was granted a replacement certificate and reclaimed his citizenship.
The Iranian impostor passed away approximately a year ago. During a recent review of forensic records, authorities discovered that he had four separate identities in Kuwait, each linked to ten distinct fingerprints. These identities included one as a Kuwaiti citizen, another as a stateless person (Bedoun), and two different identities as an Iranian who had entered the country illegally.
Enhanced forensic procedures, which were previously conducted manually, confirmed that the fingerprints associated with the four identities were identical and belonged to one individual. Further investigation revealed that his children’s fingerprints did not match those of their presumed relatives. Genetic testing confirmed that the deceased Iranian was not biologically related to the person listed as his father in the falsified records.
