Two foreigners to be tried for passport forgery<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A Malaysian woman and Chinese man will be tried
\nfor the forgery of two Indonesian passports, which were to be
\nused to seek work in Japan, an immigration official said.<\/p>\n
Coordinator of immigration affairs at the Ministry of Justice
\ncity office, M. Iman Santoso, said immigration officials at
\nSoekarno-Hatta International Airport were preparing to file suit.<\/p>\n
Immigration's director of supervision and operations, Zaiman
\nNurmatias, said yesterday the arrested foreigners were Lam Miew
\nFun, 29, holder of Malaysian passport no. A 5144463 and Chen Kok
\nSung, 29, a People's Republic of China national, but without a
\nmainland China passport.<\/p>\n
He said they were arrested on May 13 at Soekarno-Hatta Airport
\nwhen they were getting ready to fly to Japan via Singapore, on
\nGaruda International Airlines flight GA 962.<\/p>\n
Lam used an Indonesian passport no. F 241534 bearing the name
\nGrace Emma Theresia Saerang, issued by the South Jakarta
\nimmigration office. Chen used an Indonesian passport no. E 726654
\nissued in Bandung, with the name Ang Juddy.<\/p>\n
\"Airport officials were suspicious...the passport holders
\ncouldn't speak Indonesian,\" Zaiman said.<\/p>\n
A press release from the Directorate General of Immigration
\nyesterday suggested that among suspected forgery accomplices was
\na late Malaysian man, whose corpse was earlier found neglected at
\nCipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The Malaysian was Tan Kok Kiong, 55, alias Chin Chong King,
\nholder of passport no. A 825870. Tan was first brought to Husada
\nHospital in West Jakarta on May 18 when he lapsed into a coma
\nafter being involved in a fight at a discotheque, Zaiman said.<\/p>\n
It was earlier reported by Husada Hospital that Tan was found
\nunconscious in a bathroom at his residence in Bekasi.<\/p>\n
The other suspected accomplices were Indonesians Jackson Tan,
\n32, Ruslan, 30, Ng Ngui Ho, 37, and Gun Eng, 26.<\/p>\n
Zaiman said the four Indonesians, who were still at large,
\nwere from the Karimun area in Riau, but were registered as
\noccupants in a rented house in Karang Anyar subdistrict, Central
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
He added that Lam and Chen's forged Indonesian passports were
\npicked up at the airport in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, in exchange
\nfor Rp 7 million. The payments were to be made in installments
\nwhen the two had found jobs.<\/p>\n
They were to send the installments to Tan Kok Kiong's account
\nat Bank Central Asia's branch in Muara Karang, North Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The city's coordinator of immigration affairs Iman Santoso
\nsaid on May 28 that Tangerang District Court sentenced a
\nSingaporean, Loh Sau Chun, to 18 months imprisonment and a fine
\nof Rp 1 million. Loh was found guilty of forging the airport's
\nimmigration stamp. The prosecutor had demanded three years and a
\nRp 3 million fine. (anr)<\/p>",
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