KUWAIT CITY, Dec 26: A man who died years ago in his Gulf homeland is still officially alive in Kuwait. This stark contradiction lies at the heart of a new and disturbing forgery case now laid bare by investigators.

The Supreme Committee has completed its review of a nationality file involving two sons registered under a deceased man whose records list a total of nineteen sons and daughters. The review was triggered after conclusive evidence proved that the two men were fraudulently added to the file.

According to the sources, suspicion had surrounded these two names for some time. Earlier investigations into the same file had already resulted in the withdrawal of citizenship from four other “sons,” after DNA testing proved they were not biologically related to the deceased father. With the latest findings, the scale of deception has widened further.

Genetic fingerprinting confirmed that only thirteen of the nineteen registered children are true full siblings, sharing the same biological father. The remaining six—four previously exposed and two newly confirmed—were added through outright forgery.

One of the most striking cases involves a son born in 1964. Official records list him as alive in Kuwait, yet investigations revealed that he left the country in 1995 and never returned. DNA samples taken from his children, who still reside in Kuwait, were compared with those of their supposed uncles. The results were decisive: there is no biological relationship. In other words, the registered father is not the son of the grandfather listed in the file.

The Nationality Investigation Department further obtained the man’s Gulf documents, which corroborated the DNA findings. When questioned, his sons admitted that their father had died in a Gulf country. However, they never reported his death to the Kuwaiti authorities. The reason was telling: his Gulf name differed from his Kuwaiti name, and registering the death would have exposed the forgery. To preserve the false identity, they chose silence.

This individual alone has five children, all registered under the forged lineage, bringing the number of dependents on his branch of the file to seventeen.

The second newly exposed son, born in 1967, left Kuwait in May 2025. His personal file lists eleven sons, while the total number of dependents under his name stands at seventeen. Unlike others, his genetic fingerprint was already stored with the competent authorities. When it was compared with the DNA of the thirteen verified brothers, the conclusion was unmistakable: he is not related to them.

With that confirmation, he joined the growing list of forgers embedded in the file.

By the end of the investigation, the truth stood stripped of all ambiguity: six of the nineteen registered children were never sons at all. They were carefully inserted names—sustained for years by silence, altered identities, and the fear that one official document, one death certificate, would bring the entire fiction crashing down.