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Man fined for using cousin’s identity to get passport
A fifty-year-old man was fined $60,000 on Friday after he admitted to using his cousin’s birth certificate to obtain
Sasenarine Etwaroo
a machine readable passport.
Sasenarine Etwaroo who appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court was charged with making a false declaration.
The court heard that on July 22, last at the Central Immigration and Passport Office in Georgetown, Etwaroo made a false statement by signing a written declaration that he was Peter Persaud, and that he had never held or previously applied for a passport.
According to the police, that day Sasenarine went to the Central Immigration and Passport Office and applied for a passport in the name of Peter Persaud.
Police Prosecutor, Kerry Bostwick said that on September 5, last, the 52-year-old returned to the office where he inquired for a lost passport. He was identified by a rank at the office and taken into custody where he was questioned.
Bostwick told the court that under interrogation, Sasenarine admitted that he used his cousin Peter Persaud’s birth certificate to apply for the passport. He was then charged for the offence.
During his arraignment, Sasenarine pleaded guilty and begged the court for mercy. He said “I am sorry for what I did. When the rank advised me on the severity I trembled.”
He was fined $60,000 and warned that if he failed to pay, he would spend the next 21 months in prison.
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