Tie Yuen Seng jailed for smuggling two women into Ireland

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Tie Yuen Seng was jailed for two years for people smuggling at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, with Judge Martin Nolan sentencing him on 3 May 2024. The offence took place at Dublin Airport.

Seng pleaded guilty to two counts of people smuggling and two counts of possessing fraudulent travel documents. Two Taiwanese passports were found in his luggage after he flew from Italy; two women on the same flight presented at immigration without documents and sought asylum.

The judge set a four-year headline sentence and reduced it to two years, citing Seng’s early guilty pleas, cooperation with gardaí and foreign-national status in custody.