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SINGAPORE: A man who was detained in 2016 under the Internal Security Act (ISA) was charged on Thursday (October 8) with lying on his passport application.
Mohamad Shariff Zulfikar, a 49-year-old Australian citizen, was charged in state courts with one count of making a false statement in connection with a Singapore passport application.
He is accused of falsely declaring that he had not acquired another citizenship while applying for a Singapore passport on December 11, 2013. The declaration was made by electronic application, according to the charge sheet.
Shariff was detained under the ISA in July 2016 for activities related to terrorism, the Interior Ministry said at the time.
He influenced others with radical messages and material that he spread online, including “numerous Facebook posts glorifying and promoting ISIS and its violent actions, while exploiting religion to legitimize ISIS terrorist activities.”
She had embarked on the path of radicalism as early as 2001 after reading material related to the jihadist, MHA said, supporting terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah, and advocating for Muslims to take up arms in Afghanistan after 9/11. September 2001. terrorist attacks in the USA.
According to MHA, Shariff resettled his family to Australia in 2002 and continued to pursue a radical ideology.
He will return to court to plead guilty later this month. For the crime of making a false statement under the Passport Law, you could be imprisoned for up to 10 years, fined up to S $ 10,000, or both.
CNA has contacted MHA for more information.
