According to a media document, a Pakistani foundation polo player, once ranked top in Southeast Asia in the game, was sentenced to two weeks’ prison on Thursday to lay in his software for Singapore citizenship. Abdul Sattar Khan, 53, who went on to symbolize Singapore in polo games and has been the “highest-ranked Singapore polo player,” falsely said in his utility for a permanent house that he had attended Garden East School, Pakistan, for his secondary degree schooling.

He first attempted to become a Singapore Everlasting resident in 2000 after being presented with an activity at the Singapore Polo Club, Channel News Asia reported. However, Khan was unsuccessful in that utility. He tried again six years later with forged academic documents and correctly attained permanent Singapore residency. He was given Singapore citizenship three years after this. Khan, a polo supervisor at the prestigious Singapore Polo Club, then controlled to benefit Singapore citizenship for his son in 2010.

The court docket heard that Khan’s first misinform Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) was on January 24, 2000. He no longer attended this school nor connected any certificates with his application, which was rejected. He tried again in April 2006, going to the ICA building and mentioning that he attended Ibrahim Ali Bhai Secondary School in Pakistan. This time, he enclosed cast instructional files, hoping for a higher hazard of achievement. The Board of Secondary Education in Karachi has since installed that the files are bogus, Deputy Public Prosecutor Chong Yun Ling told the court docket.

After Khan was caught, he admitted that he had lied and had attended neither Garden East School nor Ibrahim Ali Bhai Secondary School. Instead, he stated he participated in a village school named Government Elementally Boti Mianwali. When ICA investigated the matter, it exposed a similar false announcement in his software form for Singapore citizenship. He had similarly claimed that he attended Ibrahim Ali Bhai Secondary School, attaching the same forged files as proof.

The document states that Khan continues to be indexed as a Singapore citizen in court files. He pleaded responsibility on Thursday to 1 price under the Immigration Act for giving a fake assertion on his permanent residence utility and making a false declaration that resulted in the minister furnishing him with Singapore Citizenship. A 0.33 comparable fee was considered. Defense recommends Thomas Sim stated his customer attended numerous faculties in distinctive areas in Pakistan as a boy, as his father served in the Army and became deployed to unique locations.

Khan finished his training in a rural school in an agricultural vicinity, which provided no formal certificate to Khan upon completing his research. Khan had expertise in polo from a young age, stated the attorney. He commenced gambling at eleven and became professional six years later, developing to be one of Pakistan’s pinnacle polo players. He visited Singapore around 1994, where he impressed the Singapore Polo Club as a visitor participant and guest umpire. The attorney said the membership offered him a process as a polo instructor and horse instructor.

Khan took up the provide and joined the club about a year later, with an employment skip. He became the deputy national polo group and teacher for the Singapore polo team for the 2007 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and the 2017 SEA Games. Sim said he had been shortlisted to represent the United States as a participant in the countrywide team in the 2019 SEA Games. The accused became the best-ranked polo player in Southeast Asia for a few years,” stated the lawyer. “To date, (he) remains the highest-ranked Singaporean polo player.

The legal professional stated his client couldn’t consider the name of the faculty he attended while making use of a permanent house in Singapore and referred to his father for assistance, who advised him he had long passed to Garden East School and later gave him a certificate from Ibrahim Ali Bhai Secondary School. The accused realizes and recognizes that it has become incorrect for him to post the secondary school certificates that his father received from the nearby Pakistani agent,” the channel quoted the lawyer as saying.