Syrian, his son and Kuwaiti man get 7 years each for forging citizenship

The Criminal Court has sentenced a Syrian man, his father, and a Kuwaiti citizen to seven years in prison for forging Kuwaiti citizenship.

The court also ordered the Syrian man to pay a fine of 58,000 dinars, following investigations carried out by the Nationality Investigation Department, for what the court verdict said for receiving, ‘undue salaries’ from Kuwait Airways.

The case began with the arrest of the first accused, who admitted during interrogation that his false identity dated back to 2002, when he was just 11 years old.

According to his testimony, his father had arranged a meeting in Umm Al-Hayman with the Kuwaiti accomplice.

Following that meeting, his father told him his name and date of birth would be changed and instructed him to memorize the fabricated details while erasing all traces of his original identity.

Within a week, the father took him to a hospital for medical tests under his new identity. After obtaining a forged civil ID, he was forced to repeat his primary schooling, eventually finishing high school before joining the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training.

The ruse lasted until 2015, when authorities uncovered that several of his brothers had also forged their nationalities. Fearing exposure, he fled with them to a Gulf country, then moved on to Turkey and Egypt.

While his brothers were later sentenced to five years in prison and returned to serve their terms, he slipped back into Kuwait, hoping his deception would remain undetected.

His confession further revealed that his father had paid 15,000 dinars to secure the fraudulent Kuwaiti identity.

Investigations showed that the Kuwaiti citizen involved had registered the Syrian as his “daughter” by presenting false information and a forged foreign birth certificate.

Authorities confirmed the deception when they discovered that the photo in the Public Authority for Civil Information’s records matched the photo on the fake Kuwaiti civil ID, conclusively proving the fraud.

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