On Oct. 30, 2020, a man in Singapore who worked as a steersman ferried his brother and an acquaintance into Singapore s territorial waters off of St. John s Island, where they then jumped into an Indonesian boat which brought them to Batam.
On Friday (Jan. 8), 36-year-old Arman Mahmood was sentenced to jail for seven months and fined S$6,000 for crimes under the Immigration Act and Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Regulations, according to
Brother and acquaintance wanted to enter Batam
CNA reported that Arman was asked by his brother, 29-year-old Muhammad Aqib Mahmood, and an acquaintance, 43-year-old Mohamad Sodikin Ritban, for help going to Batam, when they were having lunch together at a coffeeshop in September 2020.