Balkan youths plead guilty to falsifying passport stamps

The men pleaded guilty and were handed one-year jail sentences, suspended for one year. 

Two youths from the Balkans have received suspended sentences after they pleaded guilty to falsifying exit and entry stamps on their passports.

This morning, Inspector Mario Haber presented Ivan Senci, 29, from Serbia, and Igor Stojchevski, 23, from Macedonia, under arrest before magistrate Carol Peralta, charging them with being in possession of passports which had been altered in some way, knowingly making use of falsified documents and falsifying immigration documents.

The men pleaded guilty and were handed one-year jail sentences, suspended for one year.

During submissions on punishment, the court was told that Senci had been married to a Bulgarian woman less than a week ago and was therefore was going to be entitled to free movement within the EU anyway.

Lawyers Robert Galea and Shazoo Ghaznavi represented Senci, whilst lawyer Noel Bartolo appeared for Stojchevski.