Forging Certificates: Kuwaiti Jailed For 7 Years

According to Al-Seyassah daily, the Court of Cassation sentenced a citizen working in the Ministry of Health to seven years in prison with hard labor for forging his academic certificates. According to the Public Prosecution, the defendant had forged a high school diploma supposedly issued by an educational institution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as an academic certificate stating he graduated from an Egyptian university with a bachelor's degree.

The defendant worked at the ministry based on these academic certificates, a crime involving embezzlement of public funds. The defendant forged official documents to gain employment, according to case files. In the Ministry of Education, the concerned staff discovered the forgery after verifying the authenticity of the defendant's academic certificates.

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