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A man was charged with human trafficking and money laundering on Saturday afternoon.
The 36-year-old man was arrested at the airport after o
A passenger who forged a COVID test result to fly out to his sick mother in Turkey was remanded in custody by a court that would not tolerate anyone flouting health safety measures.
Muhammet Mustafa Aslan, 34, who holds a managerial job in Malta, was arrested at the airport on Monday morning at around 9am after presenting a fake test certificate to Turkish Airlines staff.
The document aroused suspicion and the police were called in.
A call to the private hospital from where the test had purportedly been issued soon confirmed those suspicions.
The man was taken in for questioning, cooperating all the way and explaining how he had tried to take a COVID test on Sunday but had found the clinic closed.