Kuwait: Prison sentences for 11 people, including two Egyptians, in a forgery case

Today, Sunday, the Kuwaiti Criminal Court issued a seven-year prison sentence against two Egyptian citizens and nine Kuwaitis in a case of forging disability certificates and seizing public money.

The court explained that the defendants were convicted of forging disability certificates even though they were healthy and did not suffer from any diseases or disabilities, in addition to unlawfully seizing public money through the salaries and benefits they received.

The Public Prosecution charged the defendants in the case with several charges, including forgery of application forms, reports, and medical examinations for the Public Authority for the Affairs of People with Disabilities, with the intention of using them in a way that makes them appear to be identical to the truth and valid for use, in order to obtain the financial and in-kind decisions and benefits allocated to people with disabilities based on the forged documents.

The court also ruled that 13 other defendants in the same case be imprisoned for two years with hard labour, and ordered the execution of the sentence to be suspended for three years with a bail of 1,000 dinars.

The court ruled to abstain from pronouncing punishment on 30 male and female citizens in the same case and obligated them to pay 500 dinars bail, subject to good behavior.