Court acquits Kuwaiti in forgery case

Fake nationality hearing Aug 15

KUWAIT CITY, July 20: The Criminal Court acquitted a Kuwaiti citizen who was accused of forging high school certificates issued in Saudi Arabia.

According to the case file, the Public Prosecution charged the citizen with forgery after the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Kuwait informed the Private Education Department of Ministry of Education and Higher Education about a number of fake certificates that were supposedly issued in Saudi Arabia and which contained false information. The embassy had sent a list with the names of students who presented the fake documents to the Private Education Department.

During the court session, the defense counsel Lawyer Nawaf Al-Mahanadi insisted on the lack of evidences against his client, indicating that the accusation is based on a letter from the Saudi Arabian Embassy to the Ministry of Education which did not specify the legal procedures that were taken to arrive at that conclusion. He said the case file did not contain any details of investigations but had only the testimonies of employees of Ministry of Education, which were contradictory.

Hearing Aug 15: The Misdemeanor Court has fixed the session of Aug 15 for the hearing of the citizenship forgery case filed against six individuals.

The Public Prosecution accused one of the suspects — a Syrian man- of allegedly registering names of two of his children, who were working in the National Guard and the oil sector respectively, as citizens through forgery. Other suspects were standing trial for their involvement in facilitating the forgery procedures.