Kuwaiti authorities have uncovered a complex citizenship forgery scheme that operated undetected for over fifty years, implicating 264 individuals. The case centers on three biological brothers from another Gulf state who each assumed entirely different Kuwaiti identities, registering as sons of separate, unrelated Kuwaiti fathers.
The fraud began unraveling in 2006, when a legal dispute involving a son of one of the brothers revealed dual nationality. A subsequent file review by the Nationality Investigations Department exposed the pattern: the brothers shared identical names in their home country but had completely fabricated lineages in Kuwait. One of the brothers was found to have 21 children, all holding dual citizenship.
