KUWAIT: Detectives arrested a Pakistani man for forgery of official documents. Information was received about forgery of a mandoub's (company representative) ID card, who used it to submit a residency extension transaction for an Indian national. When checked, it was discovered that a man called Sharazad gave his ID card to another expat of the same nationality named Shawkat Tanweer, who forged it and put details of his private company on it, because he does not have a mandoub's ID for his company. The suspects were sent to concerned authorities.

This handout picture shows two people who were arrested for forging documents to issue 247 permits for workers in a farm.

Work permits

In other news, detectives arrested two people for committing forgery that allowed them to issue 247 permits for workers in a farm. The suspects, Egyptian, forged documents obtained by the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources to specify the number of workers that their farm needs. They changed the workers' number in the documents to '300' then proceeded to issue 247 work permits with the relevant labor authorities, the Interior Ministry's Residency Affairs Investigations Department said. Police first arrested some of the workers who said that they paid a middleman and a mandoub (representative) in order to obtain their visas. They two were arrested and confessed during questioning that they collected between KD 1,200 and KD 1,350 for each transaction, then split the money with the farm's owner.

By Hanan Al-Saadoun