DNA Testing Reveals the True Paternity of Children of a "Gulf" Father
- The primary file holder is registered as the father of 10 children: eight are registered under four wives, and two have no mother registered.
- Previous investigations confirmed that six of the ten are the biological sons of the file holder.
- Nationality was revoked from two of them and their dependents; two remain, one of whom is currently under study.
- Nationality Investigations managed to identify the subject’s Gulf name.
- The names of his sons registered in the Kuwaiti file are identical to those recorded in the Gulf file.
- DNA samples were taken from the sons, including one who renounced his “Gulf” nationality in 2009.
- Comparison with their six “alleged” uncles disproved the paternity link between their father and the primary file holder.
The case chapters were not closed with the previously resolved files, as Nationality Investigations continued to dismantle the branches of a file concerning an individual whose children had previously been proven not to be his. This time, the investigation reached one of two individuals he added to his nationality file as his sons, neither of whom was registered under a mother. The investigations concluded by proving that one of them is not his son, leading to the revocation of nationality from him and from the 344 people registered under his file as dependents.
The roots of the case trace back to a primary file holder registered as the father of 10 children: eight under four wives (three under the first wife, three under the second, one under the third, and one under the fourth), plus two individuals registered as his sons without being registered under any mother.
The Supreme Committee for Nationality Verification had previously examined files related to the case. Investigations confirmed that six of the ten individuals are the biological sons of the file holder: two registered under the first wife, three registered under the second wife, and one registered under the fourth wife.
Conversely, it was established that two others—one registered under the first wife and the other under the third—are not the file holder’s sons, despite being recorded in the nationality registers. It had previously been decided to revoke nationality from them and from the 232 people registered under their files as dependents.
Thus, Nationality Investigations were left to verify the status of the other two individuals registered as the file holder’s sons without a mother’s registration. One of their files remains under study, while the second became the focus of the case examined by the Supreme Committee for Nationality Verification in its recent meeting.
During continued inquiries, Nationality Investigations managed to identify the subject’s Gulf name according to Gulf documents. They also obtained data on his sons, revealing through a comparison of records that the names of his sons registered in the Kuwaiti file are identical to those recorded in the Gulf file. This provided evidence that the family existed under two different files: Kuwaiti and Gulf.
The matching names were not the only evidence. Inquiries uncovered an incident from 2009, when one of the individual’s sons applied to renounce his Gulf nationality, further confirming the family’s connection to Gulf identity and records alongside the Kuwaiti records.
Since the individual in question is deceased, it was not possible to take his DNA sample and compare it directly with the DNA samples of the file holder’s biological sons to verify whether he was their brother. Therefore, Nationality Investigations summoned his sons, including the one who had previously applied to renounce his Gulf nationality in 2009, and collected DNA samples from them. The samples taken from the sons were matched against the DNA profiles of the six biological sons of the primary file holder, who, according to Kuwaiti records, are presumed to be their uncles, as their father is registered as their brother and as a son of the primary file holder.
The DNA test results definitively settled the question of kinship, proving that the six individuals were not uncles of the deceased’s children. This finding severed the familial link connecting their father to the primary holder of the citizenship file, and established that he was not, in fact, his son, despite having been recorded as such in the file. The scientific evidence was corroborated by documents obtained from Gulf authorities through the Citizenship Investigation Department, the matching of the individuals’ names in both Kuwaiti and Gulf records, and the fact that one of his sons applied to renounce his Gulf citizenship in 2009. These factors collectively confirmed that the individual had been added to the primary citizenship file as a son, contrary to the truth.
Based on the findings of the investigation, the Supreme Committee for Citizenship Verification decided to revoke the citizenship of the individual whose addition to the primary citizenship file as a son was proven to be fraudulent, as well as that of all 344 dependents registered under his file. The file of the other individual, registered under the primary file holder, remains under review.
