06/02/2026
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06/02/2026
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KUWAIT CITY, Feb 6: In a story straight out of a gripping crime drama, the calm veneer of the citizenship records was shattered as a scandal dating back to the early '70s unraveled before the public’s very eyes. The Supreme Committee for Citizenship Investigation has blown the lid off an elaborate forgery scheme so complex that it involves the creation of non-existent individuals, child benefit fraud, and a staggering 63 lives turned upside down in the wake of the scandal’s exposure.
In 1971, a citizen, whose audacity now courses through the veins of this investigation, added two fictitious daughters to a citizenship file. This act set the stage for a saga that would span decades. These ghostly names lived in the shadows of bureaucracy, their existence virtually undetected due to a sinister absence of educational records or entry and exit movements.
The plot thickens dramatically when, in 1998, a figure emerges from the shadows, requesting a “dropped registration” that would change one of these phantom daughters, "Noora,” to "Noor" - but with a male identity. A birth certificate, a document typically emblematic of the start of life’s journey, was manipulated in a deceitful ploy to change the gender and identity in the citizenship records.
Whispers of collusion within the Citizenship Department began to circulate, pointing to a sinister alliance between the forger and insiders. The meticulously executed scheme saw the forger, cloaked in a fictitious Gulf identity, leave a trail that led investigators to a fingerprint on file at the Criminal Evidence Department.
However, the house of cards began to collapse when DNA tests shattered the forger’s claims of lineage, exposing the fraudulent strands woven into the fabric of this deception.
Not to be outdone, a second forger, following the dark blueprint laid out by the first, sought to change another ghost daughter’s identity from female to male, a change sanctioned by a court order. But like the first, this ruse too was exposed through the irrefutable evidence of DNA, which, along with Gulf documents, unveiled the true identity of the forger.
In a decisive act, the Supreme Nationality Committee has stripped the citizenship of the forgers and their dependents, leaving 63 individuals in an identity limbo. The entire conspiracy, now laid bare, has been entrusted to the judiciary to untangle the criminal threads woven into this complex tapestry of deceit.
This shocking revelation sends ripples through the community, leaving many to question the integrity of their own records and the shadowy figures who may lurk within the archives of history. Stay with us as this story develops, a stark reminder of the fine line between fact and forgery.
