A BRAZILIAN national appeared in court yesterday, charged with conspiracy and uttering a forged document.

Jose Da Silva pleaded guilty to both charges, before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell.
He confessed that, between October 15, 2012 and March 26, 2013, he conspired together with others to insert two Guyana arrival and departure stamps in a passport, purporting to show that they were put there by the immigration office, knowing that to be false.
He also admitted that, on March 26, at Ogle East Coast Demerara, with intent to defraud, he uttered, to an immigration officer, his Brazilian passport with forged arrival and departure stamps, purporting to show that they were stamped at the immigration office, knowing that to be false.
Da Silva was fined $75,000 for each offence with the alternative of six months imprisonment.