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SINGAPORE - A Vietnamese woman who married a third husband while still wed to the first was sentenced to 11 months in jail, news reports said on Friday.
Tran Thi Gai, 29, pleaded guilty to bigamy, making a false marriage declaration and lying that she had not used a different passport or name to enter Singapore, The Straits Times said.
The court heard that Tran married her first husband, Liong Tian Yong, in 2001 so that she could extend her stay in Singapore. She was then holding a Cambodian passport.
She married Kelvin Quek Tze Beng in 2003. A year later, she married her third husband, The Kuan Meng, as she was pregnant with his child.
The, a 36-year-old sales engineer, has been charged with abetting her and is scheduled to go on trial Monday.
Tran’s offences were discovered when she applied for permanent resident status last year.
Tran Thi Gai, 29, pleaded guilty to bigamy, making a false marriage declaration and lying that she had not used a different passport or name to enter Singapore, The Straits Times said.
The court heard that Tran married her first husband, Liong Tian Yong, in 2001 so that she could extend her stay in Singapore. She was then holding a Cambodian passport.
She married Kelvin Quek Tze Beng in 2003. A year later, she married her third husband, The Kuan Meng, as she was pregnant with his child.
The, a 36-year-old sales engineer, has been charged with abetting her and is scheduled to go on trial Monday.
Tran’s offences were discovered when she applied for permanent resident status last year.
