KUWAIT: Following up citizenship forgery cases, citizenship and passport detectives recently found that a Yemeni man received Kuwaiti citizenship by having his name added to a Kuwaiti citizen’s file, and accordingly had been enjoying many privileges like getting a job in an oil company, receiving a handsome salary, getting a government-provided house and opening up his house for his Yemeni mother and two brothers, before he ended up in the central prison on charges of drug abuse and trafficking, said informed security sources.

The sources added that detectives had been tipped off concerning the suspect’s father’s agreement with the citizen who gave the Yemeni his name and had a Kuwaiti passport and ID issued for him as his own son in return for money back in 1959.

The sources added that investigations showed that the suspect had two younger Yemeni brothers residing and working in Kuwait. Further, the sources said that detectives arrested the Kuwaiti citizen and interrogated the main suspect’s brothers, who admitted and said that they knew that their father, who passed away in Kuwait in 1997, had made such an arrangement.

They also said that their brother was doing time in the central prison. In addition, the sources said that on interrogating the main suspect, the fake Kuwaiti, he confessed, adding that the citizenship gave him access to housing welfare, medical care, education, a highly-paid job, housing loan and a marriage loan in addition to many other privileges allocated for citizens. — Al-Rai