Kuwaiti authorities have uncovered one of the most extensive and carefully concealed nationality forgery schemes in the country’s modern history, a case that stretched across more than five decades and ultimately affected 264 people, including children and grandchildren. At the centre of the case are three men from a Gulf state who are full brothers by birth, sharing the same father, grandfather and family lineage, according to Al Rai newspaper.  In Kuwait, however, each brother lived under a completely different identity, registering himself as the son of a different Kuwaiti father and affiliating with unrelated families. On paper, they appeared to be strangers. In reality, they were members of the same family. Investigators later described the arrangement as a deliberate fragmentation of identity, “brothers in the Gulf, strangers in Kuwait”, a strategy that allowed the deception to survive undetected for decades. The case began to unravel in 2006, when one of the sons of the first accused, identified in official records as “A”, became embroiled in a financial and legal dispute in Iran.  The matter prompted formal correspondence between Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Interior regarding a Kuwaiti citizen who had left the country illegally and […]