Jail for S’porean who assumed Indonesian man’s identity to travel to Singapore multiple times


SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A Singaporean divorcee who moved to Indonesia to start a new life and overstayed assumed a different identity to obtain two Indonesian passports for travel to Singapore multiple times between 2007 and 2016.

Amran Abdul Sattar, 52, was sentenced to 22 weeks’ jail on Thursday (April 20) after he pleaded guilty to eight charges under the Immigration Act.

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