6 jailed for taking part in marriage of convenience arrangements

[Hysteria]

6 jailed for taking part in marriage of convenience arrangements

AsiaOne
Thursday, Aug 29, 2013

SINGAPORE - A Chinese woman and her married Singaporean lover have been jailed after immigration officers uncovered a complex web of arrangements made in order for the woman to remain in Singapore.

Fong Chong Kee, 41, arranged for a marriage of convenience between his lover Tang Qiu Xia, 36, and Raymond Roy, 42, so Tang could live in Singapore.

Tang, who is also married to someone else, did not live with Raymond Roy even after they got married in June last year.

Irregularities were found when Tang applied for a visit pass under the sponsorship of Raymond in July, 2012. Two days later, Fong also submitted an application for a long term visit pass (LTVP) for Tang. In Fong’s application, he stated Tang’s residential address as Raymond's address, and falsely stated that she was pregnant.

Raymond and Tang were both told to meet with Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers as a follow up but they failed to show up.

Tang was arrested for overstaying on August 2, 2012.

She was charged and convicted on August 10, 2012, for making a false statement in her visa application and disembarkation/embarkation card, as well as for overstaying.

Raymond was charged and convicted for making false statements in his application for Tang’s visit pass.

Both Tang and Raymond were sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment.

Fong Chong Kee was charged for abetting Tang and Raymond to make false statements to obtain a visit pass for Tang; and also for abetting Tang to make false statements in her disembarkation/embarkation card. He was also charged for making a false statement in an attempt to obtain a visit pass for Tang.

He pleaded guilty to the charges and was convicted for one count of making a false statement in an attempt to obtain a visit pass for Tang. He was sentenced to 4 weeks’ imprisonment in July this year.

Further investigations led ICA officers to a Singaporean man, Gordon Koh, who was found to have assisted Tang in prolonging her stay in Singapore by abetting her to make false statements in her disembarkation/embarkation card in April 2012 .

Another man, Steven Fong, 40, who was a witness for Tang and Raymond’s marriage, was found to also be involved in another marriage of convenince with a Chinese national, Zheng Cijun.

Gordon Koh, 41, was sentenced to 3 weeks in jail for abetting a false statement in Tang’s documents.

Steven Fong was sentenced to 2 weeks in jail for abetting false statements in Zheng’s application for a visit pass. The woman he was in a marriage of convenience with was also sentenced to 4 weeks' jail for making false statements.

Those who have contracted/ entered into an MOC or those who have arranged or assisted in arranging such marriages on or after December 19 face a maximum fine of $10,000, up to 10 years in jail, or both.

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[red amoeba]

si beh complex
..just so can mass orgy ? wtf

 

[hokkien]

End of the day who stand to gain?

 

[Montagut]

si beh complex
..just so can mass orgy ? wtf

Bukkake....

 

[Hysteria]

Wed, Sep 04, 2013
The New Paper

'Honeymoon' behind bars

by Rennie Whang

Singapore - He was a married Singaporean attracted to a Chinese national he met in May last year.

In a bid to keep her in Singapore, Fong Chee Keong, 41, got a fixer to arrange a marriage of convenience between his Chinese lover, Tang Qiu Xia, 36, and another Singaporean, Raymond Roy, 42, the following month.

The newlyweds lived apart from each other, with Raymond in Canberra Road and Tang in Geylang with friends.

Their matrimony caught the attention of Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers when irregularities were found in Tang's application for a visit pass.

It turned out that another Singaporean, Gordon Koh, had helped Tang extend her stay in Singapore by helping her make false statements in her disembarkation/embarkation card in April last year.

Singaporean Steven Fong, who had been a witness in Tang and Raymond's marriage, was also involved in another marriage of convenience with a Chinese national, Zheng Cijun, registered in July 2012, officers found.

Tang was jailed four weeks in August last year for obtaining a visit pass by making a false statement in her application and for overstaying.

Raymond was jailed four weeks for obtaining a visit pass for Tang by making a false statement in his application for Tang's visit pass.

Fong Chee Keong was jailed four weeks in July for abetting and for making a false statement to get a visit pass for Tang.

Koh was jailed for three weeks, Fong two weeks and Zheng four weeks.

For their involvement in sham marriages, 139 people were convicted in court in just the first half of this year - up from the 89 people dealt with over the whole of last year.

Owner of matchmaking agency Bestmatch Marriage Consultants, Mr William Chew, said that every two or three months, a foreign woman, usually Chinese or Vietnamese, would come in asking if he arranges such marriages.

"They would say they'd give me between $2,000 and $6,000," he said.

"Some of them have been here for quite some time, you can tell from their accent."

He also gets Singapore men making the same inquiry. In some cases, these are men who have been approached by girls in pubs who want to stay on instead of shuttling between two countries.

Divorce

"Some of them say there's no risk - they would register (the marriage), then divorce. But I don't think it's love. They just want to lie. So I turn them away," said Mr Chew, who is in his 60s.

Owner of matchmaking agency Ideal Marriage Centre, Mr Loi Eng Tuang, 55, said he is offered up to $8,000 over the phone to arrange sham marriages. He declines such offers.

"It's fishy when women say they want to look for a husband, but are too easy about it. For example, they don't even care about the man's age," he said.