A woman, who passed herself off as her sister-in-law to get a passport, was on Tuesday fined $40,000 for obtaining the document by making false declarations.
Tolsiedai Persaud, 46, of Cotton Tree Village, West Coast Berbice, could have gotten away with the crime if her sister-in-law, Parbattie Roopnarine, did not subsequently apply for a passport and learned that one was already issued in her name.
Police said that on August 24, 2012, at the Central Immigration Office (CIO), Persaud,