An Australian man apparently trying to evade his drug charges in Perth has been arrested in Bali for allegedly using a fake id, hijacking someone else’s identity.
Shaun Edward Davidson was a no-show in Perth Magistrates Court on January 28, but he was later found on Tuesday in Bali where police designated him a suspect for stealing someone else’s identity and for overstaying his visa—it’s always the visas in the end that’ll get you.
The 31-year-old had been charged in Oz with four offenses that included possessing meth and cannabis to sell or supply.
“It seems (Davidson) is evading the law back in his country Australia, that’s why he was trying to disappear here,” said Mohamad Soleh, an immigration officer from Bali’s Ngurah Rai International airport, as quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald.
The Aussie entered Indonesia on a 30-day VOA that expired on Feb. 26 last year, Soleh said.
“A report was made of a foreigner who was suspected of overstaying in Kuta,” Soleh explained. “We found that he not only overstayed but used different identities.”
It is believed that Davidson may have used up to five false identities. A passport and a KITAS in other men’s names were found upon his arrest.
Indonesian authorities were tipped off that Davidson may have been overstaying his visa when immigration officers checked his passport at Rabasta Hotel in Kuta, where he had been staying the past few months.
“They were suspicious as the latest stamp to enter Indonesia on the passport was back in 2012,” the manager on duty at Rabasta told SMH.
Davidson was sent to Kerobokan on April 6, where he will await legal proceedings now that he’s been named a suspect for breaching Indonesian immigration law. He could apparently get seven years max in prison.
