CHINESE HELD IN KUWAIT FOR 34 BOGUS WIVES

Kuwaiti police have arrested a Chinese on getting information that the man used forged marriage contracts to bring in 34 bogus wives into the country. The man was arrested after an immigration official suspected about his frequent visits to the immigration office to get entry visas. Officers discovered that the accused had submitted 34 requests for family reunion, presenting every time a fake marriage contract to allow the bogus wife to stay in Kuwait for three months. He later confessed that he took 1,500 Kuwaiti dinars ($5,200) from each of the women for the visit visa. Inside the country every ‘wife’ was taken to a flat in Kuwait City and held hosted. An accomplice said that the women left early in the morning and returned to the flat late in the evening and that most of them earned money through ill means.