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Oct 31, 2012 News
A 45-year-old Brazilian miner was fined for passport fraud when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The man had presented a passport to local immigration authorities with bogus entry stamps affixed to it.
The court heard that on October 29 while at the Ogle Airstrip, East Coast Demerara, Calais Dias with the intent to defraud, uttered to woman Police Constable Ashana Ramsey, his Brazilian passport with two false insertions – two false immigration entry stamps – in order that it be used as genuine.
Dias whose local address is listed as 35 Back Street Ruimziegt West Coast Demerara, pleaded guilty to the charge which was read to him by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
He was represented by Attorney- at- Law Patrice Henry, who told the court that Dias has been working in the interior locations of Guyana as a gold miner for a numbers of years and has fathered two children, with the younger being Guyanese.
Henry asked for “non-custodial penalty” to be handed down to client whom he claims “has no previous brushes with the law.”
Dias was ordered to pay a $75,000 fine or alternatively spend six months in jail.
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