Filipino Fined For Not Showing Passport
By Rol Ezam

Bandar Seri Begawan - A 22-year-old Filipino who failed to produce his passport to an Immigration officer on duty upon leaving this country for Limbang had to pay a fine of $800 in default one month’s jail yesterday.

Kilton Mabilog Guadalquiver admitted that he had no reason to not produce his passport or report himself to Immigration officers at the departure section for passport clearance at the Kuala Lurah Immigration Control Post and had instead gone straight to the Malaysian border.

In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, the Immigration Prosecuting Officer, Reduan Hj Adnan, said that the defendant first came to this country on December 22 last year for visiting his relatives here.

After more than three weeks, he went to the Brunei/ Sarawak border at the said control post, prior leaving the country to Limbang. He then re-entered the country on the same day, he said.

At the passport clearance section, Immigration officers found that the defendant’s passport was not endorsed with any departure endorsement. The officer had checked through all the endorsements in the said passport and found that the defendant had actually entered Limbang from Brunei on the same date, said the prosecutor. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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