Jail terms cut for couple who lied they lost their Singapore passports
Published on Nov 12, 2013
By Ian Poh
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An appeals court on Monday reduced the jail terms for a couple who lied to the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur that they had lost their passports.
Zunaidi Jaafar, 37, and his wife Idya Nurhazlyn Ahmad Khir, 30, made the false declarations while applying for "documents of identity" in place of their passports.
The passports were not lost but retained, along with those of six other family members, by a resort in Malaysia after they had failed to settle their bill.
Earlier this year, in the district court, Zunaidi pleaded guilty to making a false statement and was jailed for six weeks. His wife pleaded guilty to two charges of the same offence, as well as two separate charges of cheating, and was sentenced to five months' jail.
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