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Five years for man involved in illegal immigration scam

Date
2022-12-09

Stage
Sentence

Primary locality
Dublin

County
Dublin

Summary

In a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court hearing, Mohamed Morsy Ahmed, aged 54, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for facilitating the entry of 13 economic migrants into Ireland. The court found that Ahmed had collected genuine refugee travel documents—seven from Greece and five from Germany—believed to have been issued in those countries, and had handed them to the migrants who arrived at Dublin Airport on a flight from Lisbon on 19 February 2021. The migrants, who had no valid travel documents, applied for international protection at the airport. Ahmed pleaded guilty to six counts of facilitating entry of people who may be illegal immigrants. He was back‑dated to February 2021, when he was taken into custody. The judge described him as a "vital cog" in the operation. The case did not address any subsequent movement of the migrants to the United Kingdom.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Five years for man involved in illegal immigration scam. Charges or matters: six counts of facilitating the entry into the State of people who may be illegal immigrants on February 19, 2021, at Dublin Airport. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

February 19, 2021 Incident
February 2021 Other
2022-12-09 Publication

Case subjects

Morsy Ahmed

Defendant

Charges: six counts of facilitating the entry into the State of people who may be illegal immigrants on February 19, 2021, at Dublin Airport (Admitted)

Plea: Guilty

Outcome: She sentenced him to five years in prison and backdated it to February 2021, when he went into custody.