17/08/2025
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17/08/2025
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KUWAIT CITY, Aug 17: The ‘hysterical’ confession of an individual led to the discovery of a complex citizenship forgery case involving a falsely naturalized Gulf national who used a forged Kuwaiti identity card to defraud his own brothers. The Nationality Investigation Department received a report from a man who arrived at a police station in a highly agitated, hysterical state.
Overcome with distress, he declared that his nationality was forged, saying: “I am a forger… I am not my father’s son.” The department handled the matter with utmost seriousness and in full compliance with established procedures. A DNA sample was taken from the complainant and compared with a preserved sample of his deceased father. The test confirmed that his claims were false, as the DNA fingerprints matched, proving he is indeed his father’s biological son. Sources told the daily that the incident prompted investigators to re-examine the entire file.
It was discovered that, as far back as 2011, the department prepared a report on a Kuwaiti citizen who registered a son under his file, who was not biologically his. That son owned Gulf identification documents, and the report included copies of the documents he used to enter and exit Kuwait. According to the sources, further inquiry into that son revealed a court ruling issued against him in 2011. Records showed that the case involved four Gulf brothers who shared an inheritance in their home country.
One brother persuaded the other three to entrust their inheritance to a Kuwaiti merchant, who would invest it through a company that would generate a monthly income. The brothers transferred their money to the company’s account, but when months passed without any returns, they filed a lawsuit against the company.
During the lawsuit, it was discovered that the company’s legal representative was none other than their fourth brother, under the identity of a Kuwaiti citizen. The brothers were stunned to learn that he fraudulently obtained Kuwaiti citizenship and used it to deceive them and seize their money.
After filing the complaint under his false Kuwaiti identity, the fourth brother managed to obtain a Gulf death certificate claiming that the ‘Kuwaiti citizen’ (himself) died in an accident abroad. With the court accepting the death certificate, the case was dismissed due to the defendant’s death, and he subsequently repaid his brothers.
The sources confirmed that Kuwaiti nationality authorities later contacted their Gulf counterparts to verify the authenticity of the death certificate. The shocking reply was that the certificate was forged, and that the doctor whose name appeared on it had left the Gulf country years earlier. The case is currently under review by the Supreme Committee, which is preparing to revoke his forged Kuwaiti citizenship, along with that of his 34 dependents.
