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A female cleaning worker, who arranged for her young nephew to come to Hong Kong with a false one-way permit, had been jailed for six months, a spokesman for the Immigration Department said today (March 8).
Ms Yip Koi-chun, 46, had earlier pleaded guilty in Sha Tin Magistrates' Court to a count of using a false travel document.
Investigations revealed that the defendant accompanied her nephew to enter Hong Kong with a one-way permit in the name of her natural son. When an application for identity card for the child was received, immigration records showed that the defendant's natural son had already been living in Hong Kong for years.
Yip admitted that the Mainland minor was in fact a son of her brother on the Mainland. Mainland authorities confirmed the defendant was not the child's natural mother.
Under the laws of Hong Kong, anyone who uses a false travel document commits an offence. Offenders are liable to prosecution and upon conviction the maximum penalty will be a fine of $150,000 and imprisonment for 14 years.
Ends/Wednesday, March 8, 2006
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