A 30-year-old expat was sentenced to six months in jail by the Court of First Instance for using his brother’s French passport to travel to Germany from Dubai, Khaleej Times reported.
The prosecutors accused him of forging a government department seal, also the airport seal, and using another person’s unofficial document.
However, the Court of First Instance cleared the Ghanaian of the charge of faking an entry seal on his brother’s French passport.
In the investigation, the Ghanaian admitted that he went to Germany to ask help from his brother.
“My brother lives in Germany and holds a French passport. I asked him to send his passport to me,” Khaleej Times quoted him as saying.
He claimed that he found the entry seal of the Dubai International Airport on the passport dated April 28 despite collecting the passport prior to that.
“When I called my brother, he told me that the seal was fake and I had to use it when leaving Dubai,” he claimed.
He kept his brother’s French passport and flew to Dubai on a visit visa with his Ghana passport.
On May 9, the Ghanaian used his own passport to get an exit seal stamp at the immigration counter and upon his departure.
At the boarding gate in his flight to Germany, he showed the French passport with the fake seal to the airline security employee. The airline security employee noticed the fake seal on the passport, which led to the Ghanaian’s arrest.
“The defendant came and showed me a passport which obviously did not belong to him. I also checked the passport pages and found an entry seal that looked fake and different from the original similar seals. I asked him more than once whether the passport belonged to him and whether the photo on the passport was his and he replied yes,” the 39-year-old Filipino airline security coordinator said.
“However, when I asked him about the entry seal, he stalled and pretended to be busy talking on the phone,” the Filipino added.
The court ordered that he be deported after he serves his six-month term in jail.
Source: Khaleej Times
