05/12/2025
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05/12/2025
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KUWAIT CITY, Dec 5: It began with a single lie in 1971 — a forged claim of fatherhood that slipped undetected into a Kuwaiti nationality file. Five decades later, that lie would explode into one of the largest identity-fraud scandals in Kuwait’s history, ensnaring three wives, 28 children, and a staggering network of 248 forgers.
What investigators eventually unraveled was a labyrinth of false identities, forged births, swapped wives, stolen nationalities, and entire family trees built on fiction.
A Phantom Son… and a Manufactured Life
According to investigative sources, the man at the center of the fraud reinvented himself twice. First, he claimed to be a Kuwaiti citizen born in 1940 — a lie that earned him a prized Kuwaiti Citizenship in 1971. Once naturalized, he quietly altered his birth year to 1933, creating a second fictional identity to reinforce the first.
But the forger did not stop at falsifying his own existence. Over the years, 11 children who were not his were added to his file, disguised among 17 legitimate ones. Three wives appeared in official records — only one of them truly his.
One of the most audacious deceptions involved swapping one wife for another. His Gulf national wife left Kuwait after a divorce that was never officially registered. In her absence, the forger married another woman — and registered her using the original wife’s name, nationality, and identity. The state continued to believe his first wife never left Kuwait… while another woman lived under her name.
The Slip That Exposed Everything
The house of cards began to wobble in 2013.
A man known as “S” (one of the forger’s 28 registered children) was arrested in a criminal case. In his possession, detectives found something startling:
- a Gulf identity card with completely different names from his Kuwaiti documents.
He confessed immediately: he held dual identities, two nationalities, and two lives. It was the first loose thread. When investigators tugged, the entire scheme began to unravel.
Then, the daughter of the original Gulf wife appeared at the Nationality Department in 2017 to renew a routine document. Her mother, records claimed, had never left Kuwait. But the daughter insisted she lived abroad.
Detectives demanded that the mother appear.
Two days later, she landed in Kuwait and delivered the line that broke open the case:
“I was that woman… until my ex-husband gave my name and my Kuwaiti nationality to someone else.”
The Revelation
Even more shocking was the discovery of a son known in police circles as “Rambo.”
A murderer in his Gulf homeland, he fled to Kuwait under his Kuwaiti identity — one he never should have possessed. When the Gulf authorities sent fingerprints of the killer to Kuwait for verification, the truth struck like lightning:
- The killer was “Rambo,” a son of the master forger — and a forger himself.
- He escaped before arrest. His family later reported his death abroad, which the Gulf state confirmed.
- Two Lives, Two Names, One Lie
Investigators dug further.
They discovered that the forger’s movements in and out of Kuwait after 2005 were all under his Gulf identity — the identity he publicly denied existed. His dual documents (one Kuwaiti, one Gulf) existed side by side for decades, never detected.
More chilling: Gulf entry/exit records, foreign family cards, and local civil IDs showed siblings, children, and even wives living under two identities, switching names and national affiliations like masks.
DNA — The Final Judge
The decisive blow came through DNA.
A preserved genetic fingerprint from the real son of the original Kuwaiti citizen (the man who supposedly “fathered” the forger) proved the truth:
- The forger had no relation to the Kuwaiti family whatsoever.
- Every strand of DNA erased the lies.
Of the 28 registered children:
17 were real — matching the Gulf family card
11 were fake, forcibly inserted into the Kuwaiti nationality system
Some were Gulf nationals posing as Kuwaitis. One was Syrian. One died. Some had radically different names in their Gulf identities compared to their Kuwaiti documents.
A Nine-Year Hunt for the Truth
From 2013 to 2022, investigators combed through every record, every identity, every travel movement, every Gulf document, every DNA profile.
By the end, the truth was overwhelming:
248 individuals — children, grandchildren, spouses, and relatives — were tied to the forged nationality network created by the man who reinvented himself in 1971.
The final report concluded:
- A single act of forgery had grown into a multi-generational web of 248 fraudulent nationals — a scheme that lasted more than 50 years.
- The forger died in 2013.
- His empire of deception did not die with him.
- It took nearly a decade, thousands of documents, foreign cooperation, and cutting-edge DNA testing to expose the truth:
The longest-running nationality forgery case in Kuwait’s history has finally been brought to light.
