KUWAIT CITY, July 21: With the revocation of citizenship from 440 individuals in a single case recently, the total number affected in the largest case to date has reached 1,060, following the revocation of citizenship from 620 people in related cases. Informed sources described this case as a “cluster bomb.” They explained that the new case, which the Nationality Investigation Committee resolved recently, is connected to previous cases and described it as “stranger than fiction”.

The case involves a father whose sons are older than he by eight, ten, and eleven years, respectively. It includes 440 individuals, all linked to earlier cases involving 620 people whose citizenship had previously been revoked. The father, born in 1940, had 22 children registered under him, including seven forged children: the first (A) born in 1948, the second (R) born in 1951, the third (F) born in 1953, the fourth (Kh) born in 1954, the fifth (A) born in 1951, the sixth (M) born in 1953, and the seventh (H) born in 1950. The father himself had obtained Kuwaiti citizenship through forgery and subsequently added forged individuals to his file. Investigations and evidence revealed that these forgers had completely different four-part Gulf names, but their fathers’ and grandfathers’ names were identical for all of them in Kuwait. These forgers were considered brothers in Kuwait, but in their actual Gulf country, they were strangers with no familial connection other than belonging to the same tribe. The forged father’s file includes 24 people falsely registered as his 13 sons and 11 daughters. These 13 sons, in turn, have a total of 416 individuals registered as their sons and daughters.

In 2024, Army Intelligence arrested a soldier on suspicion of forgery. It was discovered that he held Gulf documents under a name completely different from his Kuwaiti name. He admitted that his father was related to a Kuwaiti citizen and provided Army Intelligence with his father’s real documents. The file was then transferred to the Nationality Investigation Department. After confirming the documents were forged, his citizenship and that of his children were revoked. Investigators also examined the file of his uncle (his father’s brother), who held Kuwaiti documents.

They summoned the father’s seven living brothers, who admitted that their father had added fake children to the records, though these were his real sons. DNA testing confirmed that the seven were indeed siblings. However, all eight individuals registered as children on their late father’s file were investigated. DNA tests proved these eight children were not biologically related to the man they were registered as sons of. The man, born in 1940, was found to be one of the eight forgers and was excluded from the list of heirs.