A woman has been fined $40,000 after she admitted to having a Guyana passport.
Priya Sewraj, 30, of Lyng Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, was arraign-ed on Friday in front of Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly.
After she was read the charge Sewraj admitted that on July 13, 2012, at the Central Immigration and Passport Office Georgetown, for the purpose of procuring a new passport, she made a false statement by signing to a written declaration that she was Bibi Shazia Khan, and that she had never been issued a Guyanese passport, knowing same to be false.