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Accused sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for a sophisticated passport fraud and forgery scheme.
The accused pleaded guilty to four charges involving passport fraud, including causing the Passport Office to use forged documents in issuing passports, possession of forged passports, possession of a false wig with intent to commit an indictable offence, and use of a forged passport.
The offences occurred between 2009 and 2011 and were part of a sophisticated scheme to obtain false Canadian passports and identity documents to unlawfully bring his children from Kuwait to Canada, circumventing a custody order that prohibited their removal.
The court imposed a sentence of 18 months imprisonment followed by 12 months probation, rejecting a conditional sentence despite mitigating factors including the accused's guilty plea, positive pre-sentence report, lack of criminal record, medical condition, and family support.
