A man of many names who ran a marriage-for-residency racket in Auckland will be banned from New Zealand for five years.
The mystery man, known in Auckland as Jack Li, was exposed by a Herald investigation last August which found he was paying homeless people up to $20,000 to marry wealthy
Asians who wanted to live in New Zealand.
Li fled Auckland after the story broke and was later caught in the South Island, where he became perhaps the first person to be jailed indefinitely for refusing to give his real name.
In the Christchurch District Court on Monday, it was revealed that Li's true name was Paul Chan Kin Yu, of Malaysia.
Li will now be deported as an overstayer.
Immigration Service spokesman Ian Smith yesterday said Li would probably be sent to Malaysia on a commercial flight, guarded by a police officer. He would be banned from New Zealand for five years.
Li's road to prison began in Wellington on February 23. Police had been called to a block of flats about a loud argument between a man and a woman of Chinese descent.
Officers found a small amount of cannabis and a pipe on the man. He gave the names Lee, Li Wah and Wu - none of which checked out.
"Wu" appeared in court but eluded Immigration Service officers who had gone to the court to interview him, and fled south.
Pictures were sent to police stations around the country. About a week later, a Christchurch patrol saw him and took him into custody.
