Traffic Department Employee Among Gang Jailed Over 54 Forged Vehicle Documents

06/05/2026

Traffic Department Employee Among Gang Jailed Over 54 Forged Vehicle Documents

KUWAIT CITY, May 6: In a major vehicle fraud case, the The Second Division of the Court of Appeals, headed by Judge Nasr Salem Al-Haid with Judges Mutaib Al-Aradhi and Saud Al-Sanea, sentenced members of a criminal gang to prison terms ranging from three to five years with hard labor after they were convicted of forging vehicle registration documents, removing installment restrictions, and selling cars to unsuspecting buyers.

The case centered on a traffic department employee accused of manipulating the General Traffic Department’s computer system to falsify 54 vehicle registration documents by deleting the phrase indicating that the vehicles still had outstanding installment payments. Prosecutors said this allowed his accomplices ( a Kuwaiti citizen who owned a car rental company and three Bedouns ) to sell the vehicles to buyers in good faith and misappropriate the proceeds.

The plaintiff company stated that the total value of the vehicles involved reached KD 437,400 .

During the proceedings, the first defendant denied the charges, claiming he had acted based on a letter stating that the installments had been settled. The second defendant also denied direct involvement, saying he was only the nominal Kuwaiti owner of the car rental company, while the actual management and car sales were handled by the third and fourth defendants in return for a monthly payment.

The Criminal Court had earlier sentenced all defendants to five years in prison. The Court of Appeals upheld the five-year sentence against the first, second, and fifth defendants, while reducing the sentences of the third and fourth defendants to three years after convicting them of fraudulently obtaining the value of the vehicles but acquitting them of complicity in the forgery.