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Two indicted for allegedly lying in passport application for child
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Posted on Apr 11 2012
By Ferdie de la Torre
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A woman and her brother-in-law were indicted on Monday in federal court for allegedly lying in an application for a U.S. passport for her son when she passed off her brother-in-law as the father of her son.
The indictment charged Aifang Ye and her brother-in-law, Zhenyan Cheng, both Chinese nationals, with conspiracy to make a false statement in a passport application. In addition, Cheng was charged with false statement in application for a U.S. passport.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Cheng on Thursday.
Cheng allegedly posed as the father of his brother’s child.
Cheng’s brother, Xigao Cheng, departed the CNMI for China on Sept. 16, 2011, and has not returned to the Commonwealth since then, according to ICE special agent Ryan K. Faulkner in an affidavit filed in court.
According to the indictment, some time prior and until March 29, 2012, Ye and Cheng conspired to make a false statement in an application for a U.S. passport for the minor child of Ye.
Faulkner stated that they discovered the lie after conducting a surveillance on a car that dropped Cheng, Ye, and her infant child at the Saipan Passport Office on March 29, 2012.
