Kuwaiti gets 2 years in jail for posing as royal advisor

Alsharq Tribune- AFP

A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a citizen to two years in prison for impersonating an advisor at the Royal Court and forging identities.

The verdict issued by the Criminal Court came after the man was charged with exploiting his alleged position and attending diplomatic events. He was arrested in a police ambush.

It is not clear when the case surfaced.

Kuwait has recently uncovered a series of forgery cases and some offenders have been penalized.

In January, a Kuwaiti court sentenced five people, including a traffic employee, to five years in prison each for involvement in forging vehicle licences and illegally selling them.

In addition to the traffic worker, the defendants included a Kuwaiti citizen and three people without official documents

They were charged with forging licences of 54 vehicles linked to instalments amounting to KD440,000 ($1.4 million) due to a company.

The prime defendant, i.e. the traffic employee, had colluded with the co-defendants to fraudulently re-sell the vehicles to unsuspecting persons.

In a separate case, the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry last week reported that authorities had apprehended an expatriate accused of forging official documents in exchange for money.

The suspect, an Egyptian national, was found to have forged medical reports and records allegedly attributed to a medical centre. He used doctors’ seals without their knowledge or consent, according to investigations.

A special security team established contact with the suspect and set up a carefully planned ambush. Detectives from the Residency Affairs Police caught him red-handed while he attempted to submit a forged report.