adminCollette Mukome
A TEENAGER from Glenview in Harare was fined $50 or 20 days imprisonment after he was found guilty of forging travel documents.
Trynos Tanyanyiwa was convicted on his own plea of contravening Section 36 (1) (II) of the immigration Act, Chapter 4:02.
Tanyanyiwa (19) appeared before Mr Langton Mukwengi.
Mr Fletcher Karombe prosecuted.
Allegations were that Tanyanyiwa of House Number 1098 11th Cresent Glenview 1 Harare forged a date stamp to exit Zimbabwe to Mozambique.
Mr Karombe said: “Adeline Mhinda, a detective operating at the Forbes Border Post, discovered the anomaly after Tanyanyiwa presented himself to an immigration official at the post.
When the immigration officer examined his passport he noted that he had a forged depart date stamped on the passport.
In his defence, Tanyanyiwa said it was her sister-in-law who submitted the passport a few days before his departure.
“Your Worship, I was at home when my sister in law processed the travelling documents.
“I didn’t know that the stamp was fake and I pray that you may forgive me,” he pleaded.
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