Non-local student jailed for obtaining services by deception

A 20-year-old male Mainland student was charged at the Kwun Tong Magistrates' Courts with one count of obtaining services by deception and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment today (October 20). In November 2024, the Immigration Department (ImmD) and the Hong Kong Police Force conducted a joint investigation into a case involving a false academic qualification. The investigation revealed that the defendant was suspected of submitting a false academic certificate of an overseas educational institution to a local post-secondary institution for admission to a higher diploma programme. After obtaining an offer from the local post-secondary institution, the defendant reported the same false academic qualification to the ImmD upon his application for an entry permit to study in Hong Kong, and declared that he had completed a three-year diploma programme in the overseas educational institution. The defendant exculpated under caution that through the arrangement of an intermediary, he obtained the false academic qualification upon completion of a two-month distance learning programme in the Mainland branch of the said overseas educational institution and he later used the said qualif

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