KUWAIT: It may no longer be strange for someone to get Kuwaiti nationality in exchange of money to become a citizen with all advantages after being without a "nationality," or become a Kuwaiti with the power of money and add this to another to use the advantages of the first one, that is be a dual citizen.

Yet to become a Kuwaiti twice with two different names and two identical pictures with a beard as the only difference is a different issue and an unprecedented one. The hero of the new incident is a bedoon who sought to get nationality in the name of a Kuwaiti who became notorious for selling nationalities and claimed to be his son, so he filed a pedigree complaint to enable his son to get Kuwaiti nationality, but a DNA test failed him.

The man did not give up and filed a complaint at the personal status court that took many years to decide, until he received three rulings that the person who failed the DNA test was his son, after preparing foolproof documents and testimonies in exchange of money, and so the "fake" son received Kuwaiti nationality and benefited from its advantages.

The case, as discovered and followed up by the public funds crimes fighting department, said the person who failed the DNA test did not lose hope in gaining Kuwaiti nationality, and got it while waiting for the verdict of the personal status courts' ruling, after another Kuwaiti added him to his file, and by this he became a Kuwaiti with a different name and different tribe, and this way he benefited from the full advantages of the nationality through his "new personality".

Sources said Bahraini security authorities detained the "fake Kuwaiti" after suspecting his identity because the birth date on his ID could not be right due to changing it by at least 12 years, then found he was wanted to serve a five-years jail sentence, and was handed to Kuwait authorities.