09-06-2004, 07:47 PM
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Originally posted by Webby
Nanda:
Sure!! :-) Some immigration people have not the slightest clue about any passport!
One of the weirdest stuff which ended up as a court case where I am was...
Two US IRS agents visited here in relation to the possibility of getting a US citizen extradicted for some fraud case.
When they were in front of a judge, the judge asked for their "credentials", authorisation papers and their passports.
One question lead to another in court and it turns out these two people (a man and a woman), actually entered the country with false passports (duh?).
They were then detained pending further enquiries where the police traced their movements, prior to the court hearing and turns out they also presented false documents to a couple of banks to open accounts - presumably for themselves, but under different names. This is a criminal offence here.
So.. first shows that immigration people sometimes have not a clue :-)
The end of the story was ... they were charged with "whatever" offences and given permission to leave the country, pending the main court case.
Of course they left for the US and never set foot in this country again. There are still warrants out for their arrest here and they will be detained if they arrive here again.
The press contacted.. think it was the woman when she was back in the US and she "offered" a comment along the lines "I never knew it was illegal" Duh?
The judge eventually agreed to the extradiction of the US "perp" and he was flown by Lear jet back to the US to stand trial.
So.. second point! :-) It shows you how amazingly stupid even IRS people can be when travelling abroad on govt biz and using false papers and committing offenses. I doubt they are working for the IRS now? 
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