KUWAIT CITY, Sep 18: Security investigations conducted by the Nationality Investigation Department have uncovered a complex case of citizenship forgery involving three Iraqi siblings who were fraudulently registered as the children of a Kuwaiti citizen. The case, now under review by the Supreme Nationality Committee, highlights decades of deception and extensive fraudulent registration of dependents.

According to informed sources, the three Iraqi siblings, born in the 1950s and neighbors of the Kuwaiti citizen, were added to his file under Article 1, long before the citizen’s real children were registered. Over the years, the siblings remained in Kuwait, married Iraqi women, and continued to maintain social and financial ties in the country.

Investigations also revealed the existence of a fourth half-brother, who entered Kuwait as a stateless individual (Bedoun). His file listed him as an Iraqi national, and he was unable to claim descent from his three siblings because they had already been registered as Kuwaiti citizens. The Bedoun Committee, in 2005 and 2006, requested that his genetic fingerprint be recorded; the sample was retained by the Criminal Evidence Department.

The case resurfaced in 2025 when new information indicated that the three alleged Kuwaiti siblings were actually Iraqi nationals fraudulently claiming to be related to the Kuwaiti citizen. DNA tests were conducted on two of the siblings, while the children of the deceased third sibling were tested to establish familial links.

Comparisons with the genetic fingerprint of the fourth brother confirmed that he was the direct sibling of the three individuals and the uncle of the third sibling’s children. These results conclusively proved that the three siblings were of Iraqi origin and had no biological relationship with the Kuwaiti citizen under whose file they were registered.

Investigators also found that the fourth brother had lived adjacent to one of his siblings before the invasion of Kuwait, in a neighborhood known as Tofa Batoufa. One of the fourth brother’s sons had obtained Australian citizenship and worked in Kuwait under the sponsorship of one of the three siblings. Evidence showed continuous communication over the years between the three registered “Kuwaitis” and their fourth brother, confirming their awareness of the fraudulent registration and its origins.

The investigation revealed that the citizenship files of the three siblings contained illogically large numbers of dependents, indicating extensive fraudulent activity. One file listed 36 individuals, another 23, and the third — belonging to the deceased sibling — had 81 dependents, including children and grandchildren. Upon confirmation of the fraud, the citizenship of all dependents is automatically revoked.

The DNA fingerprinting and investigative findings provide indisputable proof that the three siblings were not the biological children of the Kuwaiti citizen under whose name they were registered. The case underscores the challenges authorities face in detecting long-standing nationality forgery and emphasizes the importance of forensic and genetic verification in protecting the integrity of citizenship records.