A CUBAN National was fined $110,000 after she appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, charged with forgery and overstaying her time in Guyana.

Yenisleity Ruiz Bermudez pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that between October 26, 2016 and January 20, 2017 at Georgetown, with intent to defraud, conspired with a person or persons to forge Guyana arrival and departure immigration stamps purporting that they were issued by local immigration services, in her Republic of Cuba passport.

Bermudez pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that between September and October, 2016 she failed to comply with the permit that only gave her permission to stay in Guyana until October 26.

The court was informed by her lawyer Paul Fung-A-Fat that 22-year-old Bermudez who is engaged to a Guyanese paid $3,500US dollars for her passport to be stamped.

Magistrate Daly ordered that Bermudez pay a fine of $80,000 for forgery and $30,000 for overstaying her time in Guyana. She is to be deported within 72 hours.