It took some time but police this afternoon took the man they believe to be the head honcho in the immigration scandal of 2002 to court.
59-year-old businessman Jabbour 'Gabby' Afif was taken before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord this afternoon to be read a whopping 35 charges for immigration irregularities. He sat in court for about half an hour to listen as thirty-five counts were read for possession of a forged document and possession of a forged official document. No plea was taken, as the matter is indictable. The prosecutor Jacqueline Willoughby did not object to bail, she did ask however that Afif surrender his travel documents and report to court once a week. If he wants to travel out of the country a special permission will have to be granted by the courts. A request was also put that he not interfere with any of the witnesses. He met bail in the sum of $250,000. For his part attorneys Michel Chebat and Simeon Sampson asked for disclosure on the case and it was granted for May 1st. Afif will reappear in court on the 6th of April.
He joins two other persons Therese Cabral and Hassan El-Sayeed who had been previously taken to court to answer to charges also related to the immigration scandal. El Sayeed was taken to court on the 14th of January of this year where he was read 119 charges related to forged immigration documents. Cabral was taken in on July 31st when she was read charged with 37 counts of forgery and 6 counts of perjury.
The immigration scandal broke in august of 2002 where numerous immigration documents surfaced that bore irregularities.