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Man gets 3 yrs. in jail for forging Labor, Immigration papers
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Posted on Feb 12 2006
The Superior Court has sentenced a man to three years in prison for forging Labor and Immigration documents to collect money.
Associate Judge Kenneth Govendo ordered MD. Jahangir Miah to spend three years in jail, with no possibility of parole.
Govendo gave Miah credit for the time he already served in jail.
The judge said if Miah will not be deported, he will be placed on three years of probation.
The defendant was ordered to pay $500 in restitution to the victim and $100 in court assessment fee and $100 in annual probation fee.
A review hearing was set for Dec. 11, 2006.
In December 2003, the Attorney General’s Office charged Miah and co-defendant MD. Munir Hossain with immigration fraud, theft by deception, forgery, and conspiracy.
Miah entered a plea agreement and pleaded guilty.
Assistant Attorney General Eric S. O’Malley stated in the complaint that on or between Aug. 2002 and Sept. 2002 the defendants provided Mr. Ranjit K. Saha with a copy of a CNMI Labor and Immigration receipt to serve as a legal document, which the defendants knew to be forged or fraudulent.
O’Malley said the defendants accepted cash money from Saha to find employment and process Labor and Immigration permits for Ye Qun Fang and Ye Qian Qian “when said defendants had no intention to do so.”
A copy of a Labor and Immigration receipt which purports to evidence the filing of a Labor permit application fee on behalf of Fang and Qian, “where no such fee was filed and no such original receipt was issued,” the prosecutor said. (Ferdie de la Torre)
