Man who sold passport is jailed three years; accomplice agreed to mail it back

A man who claimed to have been lured into selling his passport to a fellow migrant, and who was later caught by airport officials, was jailed for three years on Monday. Mohamad Hamed Mohamad, a 40-year old Eritrean construction worker with a Maltese identity card, was arraigned, barely 24 hours after a fellow migrant admitted in court to attempting