Expat charged with forgery

A BANGLADESHI man appeared before the Waigani Committal Court on Thursday accused of four counts of forgery.
Sumon Dewan, 30, from Nurbang, Bangladesh, was charged with producing fake documents such as grade 10 school certificate, driving licences and work permits.
On Dec 31 between 1pm and 5pm a police investigation team acted on a search warrant at the Pypon Holdings Ltd premise where the accused and another individual, Faysal MD, operated from.
The two expatriates’ work permits were confiscated and after searching Dewan’s room, other counterfeit work documents were also found.
These documents were taken along with electronic equipment, employees phones and Dewan’s Nokia phone in which they discovered that he had been communicating with a client to produce three fake licences.
When Dewan was brought in for questing, he denied all allegations against him.
Upon further investigations by the investigation team with the assistance of a information technology expert and the respective authority tasked in producing these documents, it was revealed that the accused had lied.
He was then charged with four counts of forgery and four counts of false utterance on June 13.
He appeared before Magistrate Cosmas Bidar on Thursday on K2,000 bail which was extended upon adjournment of his case to Aug 23.