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Man avoids jail for trying to use a fake covid test on a flight to Egypt
Posted: Tue May 04, 2021 4:53 pm
by crewmeal
The Daily Mail dug this one up:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... Egypt.html
Not sure I'm that desperate to get to Egypt, but I guess there are those who are.
Re: Man avoids jail for trying to use a fake covid test on a flight to Egypt
Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 8:32 am
by newcastle
I’m not sure it’s a British legal requirement to have a fit- to- fly certificate in order to travel to Egypt. He was going to Cairo where the Egyptians require a negative PCR test. If he was going to Hurghada there’d have been no problem.
This assumes his “ dying relative” excuse was valid.
Talk of a prison sentence for trying to dupe Egyptair or Egyptian immigration seems a bit excessive. I’d be interested to know what particular statute he was supposed to have infringed.