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Deportee faces court for defrauding immigration department

Feb 27, 2013 News

Sase Harry Nepal Singh was yesterday remanded to prison pending a probation report after he was arraigned on two fraud-related charges.
The accused, a 35-year-old farmer of Arankaville Port Mourant, East Berbice, Corentyne, stood before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The first charge against Singh stated that on September 5, 2012, he went to the Central Immigration and Passport Office, Georgetown, for the purpose of procuring a new passport.
There he signed to a declaration immigration form the name Boodram Ramsaran in favour of himself, knowing that it was false.
The other charge read that on October 30, 2012, while at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Singh being an outgoing passenger signed a legal immigration document indicating that he was Boodram Ramsaran, knowing same to be false.
Singh pleaded guilty to both charges.
Police Prosecutor Renetta Bentham presented the court with the details of the case. Bentham said that the accused had been living in the United States of America illegally for a number of years before he decided to go to the US Immigration Department for a Green card. While at the immigration office, Singh was questioned, arrested and later deported to Guyana.
Sometime last year Singh met a man he identified as Ravi. Singh told investigating officers that ‘Ravi’ offered to help him procure a new passport using someone else’s birth certificate for the cost of US$500.
Thus the accused applied and received a new passport in the name Boodram Ramsaran and used the said document to travel to Canada. Singh spent three months in hiding before Canadian immigration authorities caught up with him and deported him to Guyana, where he was taken into police custody and charged with the offence.
Attorney at Law Paul Fung -A- Fat provided legal representation for the defendant.
On his client’s behalf, Fung -A- Fat asked the court for leniency.
The lawyer explained that his client was living in the US with his wife and child for more than ten years before being deported.
The lawyer said Singh returned to Guyana but suffered nostalgia for his family, thus he travelled to Canada on a falsified document.
“He was separated from his family and took the chance to see his eight-year-old child …it’s his love for his child that has him in a bad place.”
Fung- A- Fat further stated that his client has never wasted the court’s time in any of the immigration matters and has no other issue with the law.
Magistrate Latchman asked that a probation report be made on the accused. She adjourned the matter until March 13; Singh will remain in custody until then.

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