Man faces deportation for fake passport

A MAN who was caught in possession of a forged Bangladeshi passport is facing deportation, Perth Sheriff Court was told. Maunas Baura (32), described as a prisoner at Perth, was remanded in custody until January 14 to await the preparation of background reports.

He admitted that between March 1 and October 3, at a house in High Street, Blairgowrie, and elsewhere in Scotland and the UK, he was in possession of the passport which he knew or believed to be false.

He also pled guilty to a second charge of pretending to employees at the DVLA in Swansea that he was entitled to apply for a UK driving licence. He used the forged passport to support his application and fraudulently obtained a provisional licence.