Bangladeshi man arrested for giving false info

By CLIFFORD FAIPARIK
POLICE in East Sepik have arrested a man from Bangladesh for allegedly providing false information to apply for a National Identification card.
Provincial police commander Superintendent Robert Gesa said the man used to be an asylum seeker on Manus between October 2013 and February 2018. He was deported to Bangladesh on March 3, 2017, after his application for refugee status was rejected.
While in Manus, he fathered a son with a woman from Lorengau. Gesa said the man returned to PNG “through Indonesia and entered West Sepik on March 3 2019 from Papua province”.
Police said he got on a boat to come to Wewak and stayed with his “in-laws”. He was arrested last Thursday after filling in the NIP application form and a birth certificate form.
He claimed that his father was Indian and his mother was from Manus.
Gesa said NID officers noticed that he was nervous when filling the forms and called police.
After interviewing him, they discovered his real identity.
“We are now waiting for the Immigration’s advice whether to deport him or charge him for entering PNG illegally,” he said.
“At the moment he is at the police station.”
Gesa thanked the NID officers for their honesty because he said in such situations, bribery and blackmail often came into the picture.