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Berbician pleads guilty to passport fraud
A 47-year-old carpenter and father of two who changed the expiry date on his Republic of Guyana passport was yesterday ordered to pay a $75,000 fine or alternatively serve a six-month prison sentence.
Azim Mohammed of 22 Lonsdale, East Bank Berbice, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine–Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on a forgery charge.
Azim Mohammed
The charge read that on Tuesday October 16, with the intent to defraud, Mohammed, while at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, uttered to a female police constable, one Republic of Guyana passport with a forged expiry date affixed to it.
He was represented by Attorney-at-Law Paul Fung-A-Fat.
The lawyer told the court that his client was traveling from Trinidad, where he has a job, to Guyana to visit family. Fung A Fat explained that Mohammed hails from a depressed community in Berbice, where work is not easily accessible, but he needed to return to Guyana urgently.
The Attorney asked that the court impose upon his client the most lenient sentence as he had thrown himself at its mercy. In addition, the lawyer said that his client has a clean record and had made a terrible mistake. The Magistrate then made her ruling.
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