Counterfeiting crimes decreased by 90%

The Ministry of Interior revealed a significant decline in the rates of currency counterfeiting crimes during the current year (2025), confirming that the percentage reached between (85 and 90) percent compared to previous years.

The director of the Ministry’s Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency, Brigadier General Ahmed Mohammed Obaid, told Al-Sabah: “This decline is due to a package of deterrent security and economic measures to combat this phenomenon across various governorates.” He noted that “counterfeiting is one of the most serious crimes affecting the national economy and citizens’ confidence in the local currency.”

He explained that “the most prominent of these measures include tightening judicial follow-ups, intensifying intelligence work, adopting electronic payments in state institutions, and reducing direct cash transactions,” indicating that “these factors combined have contributed to undermining the activity of the gangs involved, arresting numerous counterfeiters, and confiscating quantities of counterfeit dinar and dollar currency.”

Alsabaah.iq