{"id":149,"date":"2017-03-17T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:15:45","slug":"fake-mypr-lands-illegal-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/fake-mypr-lands-illegal-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake MyPR lands illegal in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: A man was jailed for 30 months by the Magistrate\u2019s Court here yesterday for using a fake MyPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcus Darius, 32, who was brought before magistrate Cindy Mc Juce Balitus, admitted to committing the offence in front of a counter at the National Registration Department (NRD) here at 10.50pm on March 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had used the fake MyPR under his name, bearing the numbers 850510-12-5753.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was charged under Section 25(1)(e) of the National Registration Regulations 1990, which provides for a jail term of up to three years or a fine, upon conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In pleading for a lenient sentence, the unrepresented accused told the court that he is the sole breadwinner of three children and a wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, prosecuting officer from the NRD urged for an appropriate sentence as the offence involved national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court also ordered Marcus to be referred to the Immigration Department after serving his sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-borneo-post-online wp-block-embed-borneo-post-online\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"e5ibxziO9U\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theborneopost.com\/2017\/03\/25\/fake-mypr-lands-illegal-in-jail\/\">Fake MyPR lands illegal in jail<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Fake MyPR lands illegal in jail&#8221; &#8212; Borneo Post Online\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theborneopost.com\/2017\/03\/25\/fake-mypr-lands-illegal-in-jail\/embed\/#?secret=aaZaba4pms#?secret=e5ibxziO9U\" data-secret=\"e5ibxziO9U\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: A man was jailed for 30 months by the Magistrate\u2019s Court here yesterday for using a fake MyPR. Marcus Darius, 32, who was brought before magistrate Cindy Mc Juce Balitus, admitted to committing the offence in front of a counter at the National Registration Department (NRD) here at 10.50pm on March 21. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usmanandpartners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}