Woman gets suspended sentence for forged passport

A Ukrainian who obtained an Irish passport by using a forged Estonian passport yesterday pleaded guilty to this offence and got a three-month suspended jail term.

Woman gets suspended sentence for forged passport

Lubov Shevchenko, aged 70, of Peter O’Donovan Crescent, Ballincollig, Co Cork, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court yesterday to a charge of using a false instrument at the passport office, South Mall, Cork, on July 7, 2014.

Inspector John Deasy said the accused made an application for an Irish passport using an Estonian passport which was forged. The passport had been had been reported as missing in April 2009.

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