Housewife fined for lying to obtain a passport

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Housewife fined for lying to obtain a passport

Dec 11, 2013 News

A 43-year-old housewife of #11 Village, West Coast Berbice was yesterday fined $40,000 by Magistrate Faith McGusty for making a false declaration for the purpose of procuring a new passport.
Appearing at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Tolsiedai Persaud accepted the charge which claimed that on August 24, last year, at the Central Immigration and Passport Office, Georgetown, for the purpose of procuring a new passport, she made a false statement, that is to say she signed a written declaration that she was Parbattie Roopnarine, despite knowing same to be false.
The Prosecution, headed by Corporal Seon Blackman in the matter, relayed that Persaud applied and later obtained the passport using her sister-in-law’s name.
The housewife reportedly used the same passport to travel to Trinidad and Tobago where she stayed for awhile.
However, on January 25, 2013, her sister-in-law Parbattie attempted to apply for a passport at the Central Immigration and Passport Office, Georgetown, but was informed that she already possessed a passport.
Roopnarine denied the claim and was then shown the application form which was used to obtain the passport, but she recognized the imposter to be her sister-in-law Tolsiedai.
Blackman said that the matter was reported and statements were obtained, but the police were unable to arrest Persaud since at the time of the discovery, she was yet to return to Guyana.
Nevertheless, the housewife subsequently returned to Guyana and was arrested on September 16, 2013, at Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice.
Blackman said that she was escorted to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, where under caution she admitted to applying for the passport in her sister-in-law’s name.
When Persaud was asked by Magistrate McGusty whether she had anything to say to the court, she maintained her constitutional right to silence. However, it was the instant that the Magistrate informed her that the one penalty for the charge is imprisonment when the housewife began sobbing.
The woman was heard saying “Ah cyaan guh jail” as she begged the court for leniency, but the Magistrate informed her that she would be fined with the alternative being three months imprisonment.

1 thoughts on “Housewife fined for lying to obtain a passport”

Jillian Bakker December 11, 2013 at 11:33 am

Hahahaha, when jail comes a calling that when you get the best jokes out of our guyanese counterparts. At least she had time to travel.

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