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Man who confessed to asylum fraud to be assessed for community service
Summary
Monday Augustine, 52, admitted to using false documents to secure asylum and citizenship in Ireland. He first arrived in 2002 as a Nigerian, claiming to be Liberian and using the name John Augustine Sawyeer. He married an Irish citizen in 2004, obtained citizenship in 2008, and later used a falsified Liberian birth certificate to acquire an Irish passport in 2009 and again in 2019. In October 2019 he wrote to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Services confessing the fraud and revealing his true name, Monday Augustine. He was arrested after a meeting with Gardaí and pleaded guilty. The court noted his long-term community involvement, employment, and religious devotion, and directed the Probation Service to assess him for a community service order in lieu of an 18‑month prison sentence, with a hearing scheduled for 25 October. No prior convictions were recorded.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Man who confessed to asylum fraud to be assessed for community service. Charges or matters: using false details to make a passport application at the Dublin Passport Office, Lower Mount Street, on May 5, 2019. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- May 5, 2019 Hearing Or Sentence
- April 12, 2007 Hearing Or Sentence
- September 2008 Hearing Or Sentence
- October 2019 Hearing Or Sentence
- October 25 Adjournment
- April 2007 Other
- May 2019 Hearing Or Sentence
- 2023-07-18 Publication
Why: "He had no ulterior motive other than wanting to get his conscience clean. CNI source report
Case subjects
Defendant
Charges: using false details to make a passport application at the Dublin Passport Office, Lower Mount Street, on May 5, 2019 (Admitted)
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: She directed the Probation Service to assess if Augustine is suitable for community service. Judge Crowe adjourned the case to October 25 and indicated she may impose a community service order in lieu of an 18-month prison sentence if Augustine is deemed suitable following the assessment.; Judge Crowe adjourned the case to October 25 and indicated she may impose a community service order in lieu of an 18-month prison sentence if Augustine is deemed suitable following the assessment.
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