KUWAIT CITY, Feb 14: A Kuwaiti citizen was involved in a forgery case in which he sold Kuwaiti citizenship to three individuals. His fraudulent actions were first uncovered in 1986, leading to his conviction and imprisonment. However, after his release, he repeated the offense and sold Kuwaiti citizenship to three different people before his actions were exposed again. Additionally, it was discovered that he had obtained Kuwaiti citizenship through forgery himself.

The case dates back to 1986 when an officer in Sulaibikhat received information about three Iraqis who had obtained Kuwaiti citizenship in collaboration with a Kuwaiti citizen. This citizen had registered them on his file as part of an agreement, despite having no children of his own. The three Iraqis, who were employed in a military institution, were arrested alongside the Kuwaiti citizen. They were referred to the Public Prosecution and subsequently to the judiciary.

The judicial system sentenced both the Kuwaiti citizen and the three Iraqis involved in the forgery. After serving their prison sentences, the three Iraqis were deported, but the Kuwaiti citizen remained in Kuwait. Following the Gulf War, during a period of upheaval and disarray in documentation, the names of the three individuals remained on the Kuwaiti citizen’s file without being removed, despite their deportation.

In 1993, the Kuwaiti citizen discovered that these names were still active in his file. Taking advantage of the situation, he sold the same names to three individuals from a Gulf country and added them to his file, reviving the forged identities. This act marked the second time the Kuwaiti citizen had sold false Kuwaiti citizenship—once to three Iraqis before the invasion and again to three Gulf nationals in 1993.

Further investigations revealed that the Kuwaiti citizen himself had obtained his nationality through fraudulent means. Authorities discovered that he had a preserved genetic fingerprint on file due to a previous legal transaction. When his fingerprints were compared to those of his brothers, it became clear, based on conclusive scientific evidence, that he was not a biological sibling of his brothers. This indicated that he had been falsely added to his father’s nationality, and his Kuwaiti citizenship had been acquired through fraud.

As a result of these findings, the Kuwaiti authorities have moved to revoke the fraudulent citizenship of the Kuwaiti citizen, along with the citizenships granted to his forged children and grandchildren. In total, around 234 individuals were falsely granted Kuwaiti citizenship due to this forger’s actions. These individuals will also lose their nationality, as part of the legal process to rectify the situation.