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