On 46 occasions between 2011 and 2012, a Singaporean man presented a Philippine passport obtained via “dubious” channels to immigration officers when going through checkpoints in Singapore. The prosecution said Goh Chin Soon continued to rely on the “misleading...
While the Philippine passport bore a photograph of Goh Chin Soon’s face, the name was purportedly that of a Filipino citizen known as “Boris Jacinto Ngo”.On 46 occasions between 2011 and 2012, a Singaporean man presented a Philippine passport obtained via “dubious” channels to immigration officers when going through checkpoints in Singapore.
The prosecution added: “The accused’s actions were highly premeditated, as he took steps to obtain the misleading passport through dubious channels so that he could circumvent the requirements imposed on him by the IPTO , given his status as an undischarged bankrupt. Deputy Public Prosecutors Jane Lim and Wong Shiau Yin stated in their submissions that Goh was an undischarged bankrupt from May 17, 2001, to June 11, 2015.
They added that he knew about his bankruptcy issues but made no effort to resolve them. Instead, he paid US$250,000 for the Philippine passport.According to court documents, Goh had never stepped foot in the Philippines. The DPPs said that he had also never been to a Philippine embassy to apply for a passport.
Goh’s offences came to light on Sept 7, 2012, when he went to Changi Airport Terminal 3 to board a plane to Hong Kong. He presented the Philippine passport at a checkpoint and was arrested soon after. He claimed that he had applied for a passport at the Singapore Embassy in Xiamen but was not issued one, the court heard.
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