The Court of Appeal upheld the verdict of the lower court and sentenced a Syrian national to seven years imprisonment and fined him KD 350,000, equivalent to the salaries he received after joining the Ministry of Defense by fraudulently obtaining Kuwaiti citizenship.

In the same case, the court refrained from imposing a penalty on another Syrian, the convicted man’s brother.

According to the case papers, a Syrian filed a report stating that he had heard his father saying, when he was a child, that he would pay money to a Kuwaiti to get the citizenship for his sons.

The report alleged that the sons were unlawfully added to the citizen’s nationality file as his offspring, contrary to the truth.

Investigations conducted by the Nationality Investigations Department supported the allegations, with evidence confirming the forgery.

DNA test results conclusively established that the individuals involved were of Syrian origin and not biologically related to the Kuwaiti citizen under whose file they had been registered.

The court based its ruling on the findings of the investigations and the forensic evidence, affirming the charge of obtaining citizenship through forgery and consequently benefitting from privileges given to Kuwaitis.