South Korean man left his boarding pass in an airport toilet to be picked up and used for illegal flight in December 2011
A South Korean man was jailed for two years on Monday after he left a boarding pass in a toilet at Hong Kong International Airport to enable a mainland Chinese man to illegally enter Australia seven years ago.
Lee Joon-ho, 50 and claiming to be a businessman, pleaded guilty in July to one count of conspiracy to obtain services by deception and one count of making a false representation to an immigration officer. He was sentenced and jailed after appearing in the Hong Kong District Court on Monday.
Lee was arrested when he arrived at the airport last November and admitted that in December 2011, he acquired a boarding pass to Sydney with his real passport and purported to depart for Australia on Qantas Airways to an immigration officer at clearance.
Once in the airport’s restricted area, Lee left the boarding pass inside a toilet for the mainland Chinese man, who entered the area using his real passport and a ticket to a mainland city, to pick up.
Lee told investigators he was following an intermediary’s instructions and would receive a flight ticket to Shanghai, according to Ng Chi-hong, chief immigration officer at the Anti-Illegal Migration Agency.
