A Malaysian overstayer who refused to give his proper name to authorities has been sent home.
Paul Chan Kin Yu, who gave his name as Sean Wu, had been held in custody for 14 weeks before he was identified by his own admission.
Chan told authorities he was Sean Wu, of Hong
Kong, among other false names he used while in New Zealand.
He arrived in New Zealand about two years ago but was exposed by a Weekend Herald investigation last August, which found that, as Jack Li, he was paying homeless people up to $20,000 to marry wealthy Asians who wanted to live in New Zealand. Li then fled Auckland.
As a Malaysian citizen, he would not have needed a visa and would have been allowed a three-month visitor permit, which he did not renew.
In the Christchurch District Court yesterday, prosecutor Mark Zarifeh told Judge Stephen Erber that Chan had been sent back to Malaysia on Monday. The judge closed the file.
- NZPA
