Hazzazi received his family register from the Civil Status Administration in Jeddah last week only to discover that the name of a female citizen had been added to the register as the wife of a Yemeni who impersonated him by using his identity card. It turned out that the impersonator had married three Saudi women and had three children – two sons and a daughter – by them and that all of them bore his fake name and citizenship. Al-Hazzazi, who is waiting to change his civil register number as promised by the Civil Status Administration officials in Jeddah, expressed astonishment at the impersonator's ability to obtain several identity cards and add the woman's name to the register. He pointed out that he has also discovered he has to pay fines for 36 traffic violations committed by the fraudster in addition to telephone bills which he knows nothing about. Okaz published the story of the impersonator's first wife (F), the mother of two daughters (J and H), on Jan. 31. She narrated her suffering after discovering that the man who married her and was the father of her two children had done so under a false name and citizenship. This became clear after he was arrested by the security authorities, placed behind bars and then deported to Yemen after admitting before the Shariah Court that he forged Saudi identification papers and impersonated a Saudi national. The real Turki learned about the Yemeni impersonator when he paid a visit to the Civil Status Administration in Jeddah to add the name of his wife (N) to his family register. When he was handed the register, he discovered that it included the name of another wife, so he demanded that the situation be rectified. He stressed that he did not have a second wife. On conducting investigations, the concerned authorities were able to find the Yemeni impersonator and arrest him, and he admitted to his crimes. Turki Al-Hazzazi said: “The fraudster married three Saudi women and fathered three children under my name, forcing me to run from one office to another for three years to rectify the situation.” The Traffic Department, he added, is “demanding that I settle fines totaling SR7,150 for 36 traffic violations whereas I do not even own a car nor do I drive. I have never obtained a driving license. Also, the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is demanding that I settle bills for telephone numbers that I know nothing about, besides becoming the sponsor of an expatriate whose nationality and name I know nothing about nor anything about his whereabouts.” Before his deportation, the Yemeni impersonator insisted that he was a Saudi national and his real name was “Turki Al-Hazzazi”. “I still insist that I am a Saudi and not a cheat, impersonator or forger. All my identification papers are correct and my file which is with the Civil Status Administration in Jeddah proves that I obtained three identity cards in place of lost ones and a family register when I added my wife's name (F). I was born in Jeddah's Al-Azizia District. I hold a secondary school certificate from Ibn Khaldoun School. I obtained my intermediate school certificate from Al-Haditha Intermediate School and primary school certificate from Jaber Bin Hayyan School. I worked in the Customs Department of Jeddah Port and the airport in the public sector and then in the private sector. My identity card confirms that my name is Turki. I married three women. I have two daughters from the first wife (F), a son from the second wife, but was not blessed with any children from the third wife. I no longer have any relationship with my wives because I divorced them when I was placed in prison.” For her part, the second wife (A) of the Yemeni impersonator confirmed that her husband is a Yemeni national and is not “Turki”, a Saudi national, despite his having married her with Saudi identification papers. She said she used to have doubts about his real name especially since she used to hear people call him by a name other than Turki. “This was confirmed to me when I traveled with him when I was one month pregnant to visit his mother in Al-Darb Governorate in the southern part of the Kingdom. Before reaching his mother's house, my husband told me not to be surprised if his family members called him by another name. He gave the reason that his parents had changed his name when he was still young, but that they still called him according to the first name that they had given him,” she said.
