Jailed – eight Filipinos with fake ICs

 

The eight Filipino men being led out of court after they were sentenced to jail for having fake ICs. (Bernama pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: Eight Filipino security guards who were caught using fake identity cards or those belonging to other people two days ago were jailed between two and 18 months each in five magistrate’s courts here today.

The court also ordered Romi Jakira, Rijan Esnael, Razmie Alim, Sababon Insalon, Ambitun Absarun, Buyong Akalol, Askun Nahilun, and Asmarun Kilong, aged between 23 and 58, to serve the sentence from the day they were arrested on April 20.

The charges against them were filed in five separate courts, before magistrates S. Mageswary, Tawfiq Affandi Chin, Fardiana Haryanti Ahmad Razali, Wong Chai Sia and Aina Azahra Arifin.

Rijan was charged with using an identity card belonging to another person as his identity document, at Stadium Merdeka at 12.15am, on April 21.

The charge was framed under Regulation 25(1)(o) of the National Registration Regulations 1990 which carries a maximum jail term of three years or a fine of up to RM20,000 or both, upon conviction.

The other seven accused were charged with using fake temporary identity cards at the home ministry complex and Stadium Negara here, between 1.20am and 5pm on April 21, under Regulation 25(1)(e) of the same regulation, which carries the same punishments.

Prosecution officers from the National Registration Department (NRD) Mohd Zakuan Zakaria, Mohd Supian Abdullah and Mohamad Riduawan Abdullah appeared for the prosecution while all the accused were unrepresented.

Kuala Lumpur NRD director Eris Jemadi Tajudin, in a statement today, said eight security guards who were on duty at Stadium Negara were nabbed in an operation last Tuesday.

The investigation also revealed that the Filipino men had obtained the fake identity cards from agents in Sabah before sneaking into Peninsular Malaysia to work as security guards. - FMT