06/02/2026
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06/02/2026
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KUWAIT CITY, Feb 6: Conclusive DNA evidence has brought down a long-running citizenship forgery case involving a deceased Syrian man who falsely assumed Kuwaiti nationality, illegally extending it to 10 children and 50 grandchildren.
The case was uncovered after the Nationality Investigations Department received intelligence indicating that the deceased—registered as a Kuwaiti citizen—was in fact Syrian, and that several individuals listed as his nephews were living in Kuwait under Syrian nationality, directly contradicting the official citizenship records.
To settle the matter beyond doubt, authorities conducted genetic fingerprinting tests on the deceased man’s children and on the children of his Syrian brothers residing in Kuwait. The results were decisive: the individuals were confirmed to be biological cousins, completely severing any claimed lineage with the so-called Kuwaiti uncles to whom the deceased and his family had falsely attributed themselves.
The DNA findings definitively dismantled the forged family tree.
Sources revealed that while the deceased Syrian had 10 direct children, the full nationality file swelled to nearly 60 individuals, including 50 grandchildren, all of whom had unlawfully obtained Kuwaiti citizenship through systematic forgery.
During questioning, the alleged Kuwaiti uncles—registered under a genuine Kuwaiti father—categorically denied any blood relationship with the deceased. They confirmed that the man was never their brother, admitting that it was their father, who died in the 1970s, who had fraudulently added the Syrian to the citizenship file.
Responding to questions about the legitimacy of the brothers listed in the file, sources clarified that the registered Kuwaiti brothers are biological siblings from a legitimate Kuwaiti father, but that the Syrian individual was inserted into the family record without any real kinship, using forged documentation.
The case underscores the growing reliance on DNA testing and forensic verification by Kuwaiti authorities to dismantle decades-old citizenship fraud—one family file at a time.
