In February 2022, the Court of Appeals sentenced three expatriate employees to 10 years in prison for manipulating and falsifying blood samples in chronic disease tests in exchange for bribes from expatriates applying for residency permits. In December 2023, the same court imposed the same punishment on another individual for falsifying test results.

It is worth noting that the ministries of Health and Interior first discovered the anomaly. The Ministry of Health received a call from the General Directorate for Monitoring Expatriates at the Ministry of Interior, and four expatriates underwent urgent re-examinations (comprehensive examinations), including blood tests for hepatitis B and C, HIV, and chest X-rays for tuberculosis at the Tuberculosis Control Unit. The results were positive for hepatitis (two positive for hepatitis B and two positive for hepatitis C), while the chest X-rays for tuberculosis were negative for all four expatriates. After this, a gang was apprehended for manipulating medical test results by tampering with blood samples during transport between the sample collection site and the laboratory.

This was done with the complicity of a security guard and the involvement of a health inspector from the Ministry of Health. The forgery started in the expatriates’ home country, perpetrated by a woman who forged the official stamps on the test results, affixing negative result stamps to contaminated samples. While three defendants were apprehended and four others fled or were found outside Kuwait, the Criminal Court sentenced all defendants to 10 years in prison, then the Court of Appeals upheld the 10-year prison sentence with hard labor for five of the defendants who appeared in court.