Haitian Man Receives Two Year Prison Sentence for Passport Fraud

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A Haitian man who got a Bahamian passport and voter’s card through fraud has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Wakens Saint-Matin, who has been in custody since December 2004, changed his plea to guilty when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Anishka Isaacs.

The sentence takes effect from today and Saint-Matin will be deported after completing his sentence.

Saint-Matin was arrested on December 19, after an immigration officer at the Lynden Pindling International Airport suspected his Bahamian passport was fraudulent.

A subsequent investigation revealed that Saint-Matin used a forged certificate of registration to fraudulently obtain the passport.

After getting the passport, Saint-Matin got a voter’s card.