A court has jailed a Libyan man after he admitted to having presented a forged identity document to immigration officials upon his arrival at the Malta International Airport yesterday. His lawyer, Victor Bugeja contested the forgery charges after it emerged that the charges had been issued from a template. The disputed charges were withdrawn during the sitting, after which the accused changed his plea and admitted the remaining charges. On Bugeja’s insistence, the court specified in its judgement that the admission was limited to the use and possession of the document in question and not to having forged it. The court declared the Alhadar guilty on his own admission of the remaining charges and sentenced the man to imprisonment for six months.

Source: Libya Today September 14, 2022 23:42 UTC