Fake visas intercepted

TWO PAKISTANI students headed for Hamburg, Germany, were detained by police at Larnaca airport after an officer suspected something amiss with the visas on their passports.

The Immigration Department later determined the visas were fake and detained the two students. Anwar Muhammad, 24, and 20-year-old Jhous Muzfar were both students at a Nicosia college. They later admitted to police they had paid an Arab man from Limassol $1,500 each for the fake visas for Germany, and that they planned to travel to Hamburg to look for work.

The students were yesterday remanded in custody for eight days, after appearing before the Larnaca district court. Police investigators said that testimonies from at least another dozen people would be taken to establish the students’ accomplices in the scam.

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