Aliens to be deported for forged passports

JAKARTA (JP): The Directorate General of Immigration is to deport a South Korean and a Nigerian for using fake passports to enter the country, an official said.

Zaiman Nurmatias, head of immigration's control and supervision department, said over the weekend that Jun Byung-chel was arrested at the Puri Indah housing complex in East Jakarta last Thursday.

Jun had falsified his identity in his passport. "The name in the passport is Jun Pyung-chul. He has a limited stay permit (Kitas) issued by the South Jakarta Immigration office," Zaiman said.

According to Zaiman, with the falsified passport and the stay permit, Jun had worked for PT Yuditya as a technical advisor.

"He is under intensive questioning," he said, but he did not explain why Jun falsified his passport.

Julian Ifanyichyku Onyebushi, the Nigerian, was found to be using an American passport, No. 09305573, belonging to Douglas James Giles.

The photograph in the passport was of Onyebushi, instead of Giles, Zaiman said.

Onyebushi arrived at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Jan. 31 with a short stay tourist visa.

He went to Bali in February, before police arrested him and sent him to the Ngurah Rai Airport immigration office on the Feb. 26.

Onyebushi had been obstinate in claiming to be an American, before an American consular officer, invited to attend the interrogation, confirmed that Onyebushi was not an American. The envoy also confirmed that the passport carried by Onyebushi was falsified.

"Julian finally admitted that he is a Nigerian, born in Akpulu on March 23, 1962," Zaiman said.

The Nigerian said he had visited South Korea with the fake passport in 1995. He said he bought the American passport from a friend in Korea after his Nigerian passport expired.

Zaiman said Onyebushi had asked for an Australian visa in Bali, but was rejected.

He did not say when the deportation of the two would take place. (sur)