DNA Test Reveals: "His Sons"... Actually, the Sons of His Gulf Brother

- The threads of the case began with information from a “confidential source” regarding a Gulf woman who is the sister of the two brothers, (K) and (F).

- The woman admitted during interrogation, while attempting to travel from Kuwait, that they were her brothers and that their deceased father was of Gulf nationality.

- The sister’s confessions confirmed that they were registered in the Gulf country under their real father’s name, not under the name recorded in Kuwaiti files.

- DNA profiling settled three facts: they are not the full brothers of their supposed siblings; they are cousins; and they are the sister’s brothers.

- (K) has 19 children (sons and daughters) registered under his file and no grandchildren, and he worked in the military, rising to a high military rank.

- (F) has 15 dependents, all of whom are his sons, and he worked in the oil sector before retiring.

Investigations by the Citizenship Investigation Department uncovered a new forgery case, after it emerged that a Kuwaiti citizen who obtained nationality through naturalization did not add his biological children to his file. Instead, he registered two of his Gulf brother’s sons as his own, thereby securing Kuwaiti nationality for them, before investigations and DNA testing revealed their true lineage to their Gulf father.

Typically, a naturalized citizen acquires nationality due to residence in Kuwait prior to the enactment of the Nationality Law. Therefore, it is not unusual for such individuals to have siblings holding other nationalities, which applies in this case, as the naturalized citizen’s brother held Gulf nationality.

According to details of the file disclosed by informed sources to “Al-Rai,” the naturalized citizen added two of his brother’s sons to his file, claiming them as his own: (K), born in 1961, and (F), born in 1962, despite them being the sons of his Gulf brother.

The case unraveled after information arrived from a “confidential source” to the Citizenship Investigation Department, indicating the existence of a woman holding Gulf nationality who is the sister of (K) and (F), both of whom hold Kuwaiti nationality. This raised suspicions among investigators and prompted them to launch search and investigative operations.

After corroborating the information through investigations, the Gulf woman was interrogated while attempting to travel from Kuwait. She admitted that (K) and (F) were her brothers and that their deceased father held Gulf nationality.

She further stated that her brothers were registered in the Gulf country under their real father’s name, not under the name recorded in Kuwaiti files, where they had been registered in Kuwait under their uncle’s name, claiming him as their father.

It emerged that (K) has 19 children (sons and daughters) registered under his file and no grandchildren. He worked in the military, advancing through the ranks to achieve a high military rank.

As for (F), he has 15 dependents, all of whom are his sons. He worked in the oil sector before retiring.