Saudi man sentenced to seven years for forgery of Kuwaiti citizenship and fraudulent salaries

KUWAIT CTY, Oct 14: The Court of Cassation, chaired by Advisor Sultan Bursali, has sentenced a Saudi man to seven years in prison with hard labor for forging Kuwaiti citizenship.

He was found guilty of falsely pretending to be a Kuwaiti national and working in the Ministry of Defense at the rank of corporal from 1993 to 2020, unlawfully obtaining 253,000 dinars in salaries and 16,000 dinars in bank loans.

The court also imposed a fine of 800,000 dinars. Previously, the court of first instance had sentenced both the suspect and the forger’s father – who was tried in absentia – to seven years in prison with hard labor.