Indian national with fake credentials granted PR
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FAKE RELATIONSHIPS FAKE CERTIFICATES FAKE DEGREE
- Man tries to pass wife's relatives off as his sons-
- False names put on their documents
- Pays for commerce 'degree' from Madras university
HE wanted to help his relative's children live in Singapore.
So he lied that they were his children.
Mohamed Kassim Shanavas, 47, an Indian national who runs a foodstall in Punggol, even got fake birth certificates for the two of them.
One was his wife's younger brother and the other was her nephew, according to court documents.
The two - Rahman Ahamad, 24, and Ahamad Jawahar Ali, 12 - even got new identities.
In their fake birth certificates, their names were stated as Shanavas Ahamad and Shanavas Jawahar Ali.
Based on their relationship with Mohamed Kassim, they were granted permanent residency in 2003.
Mr Rahman Ahamad (Shanavas Ahamad) even did his national service and is now a Singapore citizen.
But it turned out that this was not the only lie that Mohamed Kassim came up with.
GRADUATE CLAIM
He also claimed that he had graduated with a commerce degree from the University of Madras in Chennai.
He had paid an agent in India 5,000 rupees ($185) to buy the fake degree.
Yesterday, Mohamed Kassim pleaded guilty to one charge of making a false statement in his PR application form.
District Judge Aedit Abdullah agreed to his lawyer Mr N Kanagavijayan's request to postpone the sentencing to next Monday.
Mr Ronnie Tan, prosecutor for the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), told the court that Mohamed Kassim came here in 1997 because he wanted to earn high wages.
But he had only 10 years of education, and so he decided to buy a fake degree from an agent known only as Idris.
With that, Mohamed Kassim was able to obtain an employment pass when he came here in 1997.
He is married to India-born Shanavas Vahithabanu, 45, a housewife. They have two children, a son, 22, and a daughter, 18.
In September 2003, he decided to apply for permanent residency for the whole family, including his fake children whom he was supporting.
He submitted an application form for an Entry Permit to the Permanent Resident Services Centre at ICA.
In the form, he falsely declared that his highest academic qualification was the commerce degree.
TWO 'EXTRA' CHILDREN
He also lied that his relative's children were his own. He said he had four children.
All were granted PR status on 22 Dec 2003.
Mr Tan, the ICA prosecutor, said: 'He knew these statements to be false as he never studied or graduated from the said university and he has only two children from his marriage.'
He said Mohamed Kassim's lies were exposed after ICA received a tip-off and started investigations.
The Singapore consulate in Chennai checked with the University of Madras and confirmed with ICA that Mohamed Kassim's degree certificate was not genuine.
He was arrested on 5 Sep this year.
Mohamed Kassim can be fined $4,000 or jailed a year.
Mr Kanagavijayan told The New Paper that Mr Rahman is now a Singapore citizen and helps out at Mohamed Kassim's food stall.
Similarly, Mohamed Kassim's son, now doing his NS, and his daughter, who is studying in a junior college, have also become citizens, the lawyer added. -
the question you need to ask is if there was a pay out between the relatives......as claim relatives indians have a very wide family network unlike most countries.
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Originally posted by ☃®:
FAKE RELATIONSHIPS FAKE CERTIFICATES FAKE DEGREE
- Man tries to pass wife's relatives off as his sons-
- False names put on their documents
- Pays for commerce 'degree' from Madras university
HE wanted to help his relative's children live in Singapore.
So he lied that they were his children.
Mohamed Kassim Shanavas, 47, an Indian national who runs a foodstall in Punggol, even got fake birth certificates for the two of them.
One was his wife's younger brother and the other was her nephew, according to court documents.
The two - Rahman Ahamad, 24, and Ahamad Jawahar Ali, 12 - even got new identities.
In their fake birth certificates, their names were stated as Shanavas Ahamad and Shanavas Jawahar Ali.
Based on their relationship with Mohamed Kassim, they were granted permanent residency in 2003.
Mr Rahman Ahamad (Shanavas Ahamad) even did his national service and is now a Singapore citizen.
But it turned out that this was not the only lie that Mohamed Kassim came up with.
GRADUATE CLAIM
He also claimed that he had graduated with a commerce degree from the University of Madras in Chennai.
He had paid an agent in India 5,000 rupees ($185) to buy the fake degree.
Yesterday, Mohamed Kassim pleaded guilty to one charge of making a false statement in his PR application form.
District Judge Aedit Abdullah agreed to his lawyer Mr N Kanagavijayan's request to postpone the sentencing to next Monday.
Mr Ronnie Tan, prosecutor for the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), told the court that Mohamed Kassim came here in 1997 because he wanted to earn high wages.
But he had only 10 years of education, and so he decided to buy a fake degree from an agent known only as Idris.
With that, Mohamed Kassim was able to obtain an employment pass when he came here in 1997.
He is married to India-born Shanavas Vahithabanu, 45, a housewife. They have two children, a son, 22, and a daughter, 18.
In September 2003, he decided to apply for permanent residency for the whole family, including his fake children whom he was supporting.
He submitted an application form for an Entry Permit to the Permanent Resident Services Centre at ICA.
In the form, he falsely declared that his highest academic qualification was the commerce degree.
TWO 'EXTRA' CHILDREN
He also lied that his relative's children were his own. He said he had four children.
All were granted PR status on 22 Dec 2003.
Mr Tan, the ICA prosecutor, said: 'He knew these statements to be false as he never studied or graduated from the said university and he has only two children from his marriage.'
He said Mohamed Kassim's lies were exposed after ICA received a tip-off and started investigations.
The Singapore consulate in Chennai checked with the University of Madras and confirmed with ICA that Mohamed Kassim's degree certificate was not genuine.
He was arrested on 5 Sep this year.
Mohamed Kassim can be fined $4,000 or jailed a year.
Mr Kanagavijayan told The New Paper that Mr Rahman is now a Singapore citizen and helps out at Mohamed Kassim's food stall.
Similarly, Mohamed Kassim's son, now doing his NS, and his daughter, who is studying in a junior college, have also become citizens, the lawyer added.
Is this piece of news credible? What is the source? -
Originally posted by ☃®:
He was arrested on 5 Sep this year.
5 sep is still months away... So which year is this news? why bring up so old news? -
Send them back lah.
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Feel for his children who studied here, not sure if their citizenship will be stripped though
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send them back after 10 years of hard labour at changi prison.....they are now considered already as illegal immigrants with fraudulent paperwork.
they have certain prisons that produce stuff like furniture etc for some markets.
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sending them back is way too easy...they must be made examples of!
each and everyone will be sent to prison immediately...the lawyers can visit them and fight for them in prison..
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charges would be staying illegally in singapore,espionage,entering a military installation under pretense,possible muslim terrorist cell network......etc etc etc.think its possible they will all end up 20 years in hard labour prison for quite an amount of charges chalked up for immigration offences,security of singapore,willful knowledge,cheating etc......
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I want to buy fake cert too.. Got PhD from Cambridge anot?
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Originally posted by Dondontan:
Is this piece of news credible? What is the source?
Must be just some chilli or tomato sauce news -
Originally posted by ☃®:
FAKE RELATIONSHIPS FAKE CERTIFICATES FAKE DEGREE
- Man tries to pass wife's relatives off as his sons-
- False names put on their documents
- Pays for commerce 'degree' from Madras university
HE wanted to help his relative's children live in Singapore.
So he lied that they were his children.
Mohamed Kassim Shanavas, 47, an Indian national who runs a foodstall in Punggol, even got fake birth certificates for the two of them.
One was his wife's younger brother and the other was her nephew, according to court documents.
The two - Rahman Ahamad, 24, and Ahamad Jawahar Ali, 12 - even got new identities.
In their fake birth certificates, their names were stated as Shanavas Ahamad and Shanavas Jawahar Ali.
Based on their relationship with Mohamed Kassim, they were granted permanent residency in 2003.
Mr Rahman Ahamad (Shanavas Ahamad) even did his national service and is now a Singapore citizen.
But it turned out that this was not the only lie that Mohamed Kassim came up with.
GRADUATE CLAIM
He also claimed that he had graduated with a commerce degree from the University of Madras in Chennai.
He had paid an agent in India 5,000 rupees ($185) to buy the fake degree.
Yesterday, Mohamed Kassim pleaded guilty to one charge of making a false statement in his PR application form.
District Judge Aedit Abdullah agreed to his lawyer Mr N Kanagavijayan's request to postpone the sentencing to next Monday.
Mr Ronnie Tan, prosecutor for the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), told the court that Mohamed Kassim came here in 1997 because he wanted to earn high wages.
But he had only 10 years of education, and so he decided to buy a fake degree from an agent known only as Idris.
With that, Mohamed Kassim was able to obtain an employment pass when he came here in 1997.
He is married to India-born Shanavas Vahithabanu, 45, a housewife. They have two children, a son, 22, and a daughter, 18.
In September 2003, he decided to apply for permanent residency for the whole family, including his fake children whom he was supporting.
He submitted an application form for an Entry Permit to the Permanent Resident Services Centre at ICA.
In the form, he falsely declared that his highest academic qualification was the commerce degree.
TWO 'EXTRA' CHILDREN
He also lied that his relative's children were his own. He said he had four children.
All were granted PR status on 22 Dec 2003.
Mr Tan, the ICA prosecutor, said: 'He knew these statements to be false as he never studied or graduated from the said university and he has only two children from his marriage.'
He said Mohamed Kassim's lies were exposed after ICA received a tip-off and started investigations.
The Singapore consulate in Chennai checked with the University of Madras and confirmed with ICA that Mohamed Kassim's degree certificate was not genuine.
He was arrested on 5 Sep this year.
Mohamed Kassim can be fined $4,000 or jailed a year.
Mr Kanagavijayan told The New Paper that Mr Rahman is now a Singapore citizen and helps out at Mohamed Kassim's food stall.
Similarly, Mohamed Kassim's son, now doing his NS, and his daughter, who is studying in a junior college, have also become citizens, the lawyer added.
Typically, the son have contributed to our society as NS and future talent, and the daughter will be a great contributor to our economy talent pool once she graduated, both of them are innocent, as for the parents, their objectives is to come here for a better living and a good future for their childrens, so far, though he fakes his certificate for entry into singapore, he had not done anything other thing wrong.In my judgement, let the kids stay, and make him and his wife a PR, after all, no racial intended, already we got too much PRC becoming citizens and PRs here, let the other races chop up some places.
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the foreigners cant stay in spore as legal residents anymore.their application is considered fraudulent and is thus null and void.
the entire family father,applicants,wife sons etc if im not wrong should have already been arrested by now and is in prison awaiting for trial.meawhile they have to share prison cell with 4 other people and work from prison.