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,” had said falsely 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 becoming presented with an activity at the Singapore Polo Club, Channel News Asia reported. However, Khan turned unsuccessful in that utility. He tried again six years later with forged academic documents and correctly attained Singapore permanent residence. 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 had no longer attended this school, nor did he connect any certificates with his application, which changed into 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 changed into caught, he admitted that he lied and had attended neither Garden East School nor Ibrahim Ali Bhai Secondary School. Instead, he stated he attended 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.

Khan continues to be indexed as a Singapore citizen in court files, stated the document. He pleaded responsible on Thursday to 1 price under the Immigration Act to give a fake assertion on his permanent residence utility and make a false declaration to result in the minister to furnish him Singapore Citizenship. A 0.33 comparable fee became considered. Defense recommends Thomas Sim stated his customer attended numerous faculties in distinctive areas in Pakistan as a boy, as his father served inside the Army and became deployed to distinctive 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 membership offered him a process as a polo instructor and horse instructor, said the attorney.

Khan took up the provide and joined the club about a year later, with an employment skip. He becomes deputy national polo group teaches for the Singapore polo team for each of the 2007 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and the 2017 SEA Games. He has been shortlisted to represent the united states as a participant at the countrywide team inside the 2019 SEA Games, Sim said. For a few years, the accused became the best-ranked polo player in all of Southeast Asia,” 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 whilst making use of for permanent house in Singapore and referred to as his father for assist, 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 become incorrect for him to post the secondary school certificates that his father had received from the nearby Pakistani agent,” the channel quoted the lawyer as saying.