Man falsely registered himself as father to six in Irish passport scam

A man has been sentenced to three years in prison at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for falsely registering himself as the father of six children to facilitate passport fraud. Alan Yip, aged 47, of Parnell Street, Dublin, pleaded guilty to six counts of providing false information to registrars between August 2012 and July 2015 at civic registration offices in Drogheda, Tullamore and Dublin. As a British citizen…