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damascus/" class="auto-internal-link">damascus, syria/" class="auto-internal-link">syria (North Press) – Kuwaiti authorities declared on Sunday evening the sentencing of a syrian national to imprisonment and a hefty fine after he was convicted of fraudulently obtaining Kuwaiti citizenship and securing employment within the ministry/" class="auto-internal-link">ministry of Defense. The Kuwaiti Court of Appeal sentenced the man to seven years in prison and imposed a fine of 350,000 Kuwaiti dinars (more than $1.
100), equivalent to the salaries he received while working at the Ministry of Defense after acquiring citizenship through forgery, as per the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Qabas. In fact, the court also ruled to exempt the defendant’s brother from punishment in the same case. as per al-Qabas, the case dates back to a report filed by a Syrian resident who stated that he had overheard his father, during his childhood, discussing plans to obtain Kuwaiti citizenship for his two sons in exchange for a sum of money paid to a Kuwaiti citizen. The sons were allegedly added to the citizen’s family records as descendants, in violation of the law.
Subsequent investigations and DNA testing verified that the individuals involved were originally Syrian nationals, the newspaper declared. by Abdulsalam Khoja