Photograph: Getty ImagesA UK-based healthcare assistant has been refused bail following her Dublin Airport arrest for smuggling a woman into Ireland with a Swedish “lookalike” document to claim asylum. Muna Mohamed Sharif (47), with an address at Bodmin Grove, Birmingham, England, was arrested at Terminal 2 on Friday afternoon. The Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) charged her under sections 6 and 8 of the Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Act 2021. She is accused of assisting another woman with unlawful entry into, transit across, or presence in the State, and of providing a fraudulent travel or identity document for that purpose. The GNIB detective alleged that the accused and the woman who was brought into the country separately presented themselves to immigration officers.

Source: The Irish Times April 11, 2026 23:05 UTC