KUWAIT CITY, June 30: A criminal court has sentenced a Syrian expatriate to 12 years in prison and imposed a fine of 961,000 Kuwaiti dinars for fraudulently obtaining Kuwaiti citizenship by falsely claiming to be related to a deceased citizen. Investigations revealed that the expatriate’s father had conspired with the citizen to include his son in official records in exchange for a sum of money. As a result, the accused illegally accessed numerous citizenship benefits, including employment at the Ministry of Defense, retirement privileges, a salary, a pension, a housing allowance, and an attempt to claim a government residential plot.

KUWAIT CITY, June 30: Four firefighting teams successfully contained a fire that broke out on Monday afternoon at a paper warehouse located on Al-Sahafa Street in the Shuwaikh Industrial Area. The blaze was quickly brought under control, and no injuries were reported.

KUWAIT CITY, June 30: The Court of Cassation has upheld the death sentence handed down to an Egyptian school guard convicted of kidnapping, assaulting, and unlawfully detaining an Egyptian female teacher inside the art room of a school in the Ahmadi Governorate.

The incident occurred when the guard forcibly took the teacher into the art studio, inside school premises, physically restrained her, and taped her mouth shut to prevent her from screaming. He then assaulted her at knifepoint.

Both the Criminal Court and the Court of Appeals had previously sentenced the man to death by hanging, based on strong evidence and medical reports that confirmed the assault. In its ruling, the Criminal Court emphasized that the crime took place in what should have been a secure environment, describing the act as a severe breach of trust and a blatant violation of human dignity, warranting the harshest possible punishment.