Canada - Toronto, Ontario - man with forged passport, name unknown

[Laughing]

Willing to sit in prison for 6 years rather than identify himself???

“This court’s impression is that the Unknown Person considers himself to be the director of a play and Canadian authorities are but actors subject to his direction,” Judge B. Richard Bell wrote in his court decision in February.

Arrived in Canada using a falsified US passport:

The Man With No Name arrived in Canada on an Amtrak train in 2005 using a bogus U.S. passport in the name of Andrea Jerome Walker. When he was convicted the following year for carrying $10 worth of crack cocaine, CBSA tried to deport him back to the United States — but the name and his passport proved to be false.


Scam that brought this person into contact with LE again:

Arrest made in $450K fraud investigation

More recent press:

The ‘Unknown Person’: For six years, a man who refuses to identify himself has been held in a Canadian maximum-security prison

Yeas, bizarre & failed certainly apply:

Canada's bizarre — and failed — attempt to send 'the Man With No Name' to Africa and the mysterious fixer who made it happen


Mystery of jailed Unknown Person deepens as cloak of secrecy descends on his case

Wonder if we'll ever know?

 

[dotr]

‘Man with No Name’ faces deportation after his identity finally confirmed

Michael Mvogo
"The identity of a man who has been held in immigration detention for almost a decade has finally been confirmed, paving the way for his deportation back to his native Cameroon."
"Mvogo has a long history of deception. When he was arrested in Spain for possessing narcotics in 1986, he identified himself as Philippe Jacques Hauris.

A global fingerprint search by Interpol came back with eight different identities."

 

[LadyL]

The ‘Unknown Person’: For six years, a man who refuses to identify himself has been held in a Canadian maximum-security prison

‘Man with No Name’ faces deportation after his identity finally confirmed
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Michael Mvogo
"The identity of a man who has been held in immigration detention for almost a decade has finally been confirmed, paving the way for his deportation back to his native Cameroon."
"Mvogo has a long history of deception. When he was arrested in Spain for possessing narcotics in 1986, he identified himself as Philippe Jacques Hauris.

A global fingerprint search by Interpol came back with eight different identities."

the photo at the first link posted by Laughing is not the same person posted by dotr

both links are the National Post

 

[LadyL]

 

[Laughing]

‘Man with No Name’ faces deportation after his identity finally confirmed
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Michael Mvogo
"The identity of a man who has been held in immigration detention for almost a decade has finally been confirmed, paving the way for his deportation back to his native Cameroon."
"Mvogo has a long history of deception. When he was arrested in Spain for possessing narcotics in 1986, he identified himself as Philippe Jacques Hauris.

A global fingerprint search by Interpol came back with eight different identities."

Per the article about the attempted deportation, that's the name & country of origin he provided.

Took a long time to confirm?

 

[dotr]

He even has a wiki page.
Michael Mvogo - Wikipedia
A conman with crib notes: Mystery refugee claimant ‘learned about country from brochure’
"The man was originally known as Andrea Jerome Walker, the name on the U.S. passport he carried when he came to Canada in 2005. A year later, while living in a homeless shelter in Toronto, police caught him with $10 worth of crack cocaine.

He would have been deported had the Canada Border Services Agency known where to send him.

He insisted he was an American and told a colourful tale of being given away as a baby and growing up in New York soup kitchens, but U.S. authorities proved it wasn’t true and cancelled his bogus passport.

He then reluctantly said he was from Haiti, the son of a drug-addled mother who was raised in the family of a voodoo priest. When that was finally debunked, he said he was finally coming clean.

“The Lord told me it’s time to tell the truth,” he told the IRB this spring. “I want to go back to Cameroon and, you know, to preach the gospel to my people.” He said his name was Michael Mvogo and he was born in a coastal village between two wildlife reserves, home to African forest elephants and mangrove trees.

CBSA officials took him to Ottawa this summer to meet with diplomatic officials at the Cameroonian embassy but the interview was not particularly revealing. Officials in Cameroon could find no record of him there and declared he was not a Cameroonian citizen.

Upon his return to jail in Toronto, however, he suddenly wrote out a list of things he supposedly remembered about his life in Cameroon, covering sports, politics, religion and other things.

The information is suspect, the CBSA told a recent IRB hearing.

“When he left the High Commission interview in January, he was provided with an assortment of literature… about Cameroon and its history and facts. It’s possible that he has simply educated himself by reading this literature and is now regurgitating this information,” said Stephanie Echlin, a lawyer representing the CBSA, at the hearing."
Ha ha, this character comes to mind!

 

[dotr]

Top media stories (summaries) - Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
''Herman Emmanuel Fankem
National Post published articles in May and June 2019 concerning the case of the ‘Unknown Person’ referred to as Herman Emmanuel FANKEM. For more than six years, a man who refuses to identify himself has been held in a maximum-security prison pending removal from Canada. On June 21, 2019 the ID issued a written decision to render the proceedings private as per section 166(b) (ii). The man’s detention was ordered continued on September 4, 2019. Detention was continued following subsequent detention reviews; A detention review held on February 17, 2020 resulted in continued detention, and it was disclosed by CBSA that Cameroonian authorities have confirmed that the person concerned is a Cameroonian national; outstanding remains confirmation of his name and date of birth and issuance of a travel document for the purpose of removal.

A detention review was held June 26, 2020. His designated representative has resigned, and a new designated representative is to be appointed. He is also no longer represented by counsel. It was also disclosed that his habeas corpus application for release to the Superior Court of Justice, Ontario, based on allegations that his detention was unlawful, was dismissed. At his subsequent detention review held on July 28, 2020, the person concerned was represented by new counsel, Karim Escanola, who was retained by newly appointed designated representative, Vivian Garofalo. However, the person concerned has thus far refused to meet or speak with either, has not provided instruction to his counsel, and refused to participate in the detention review hearing. His detention was continued on grounds that he is a flight risk, and the next detention review was scheduled for August 21, 2020.

At his August 21 detention review, the Minister confirmed that while the subject’s identity remains outstanding, his nationality was now confirmed. A travel document application will be submitted to the Cameroonian Consulate. Evidence presented suggested a travel document will be issued soon. Once obtained, the Minister can make removal arrangements for the subject. Detention has been continued since, and the next detention review is November 30, 2020.

Note: The proceedings are currently public and have been since November 2019. Reporter Adrian Humphreys of the National Post has been provided with all available transcripts (in French) since the case became public again. The reporter has not reported on the case again to date.''

Mystery of jailed Unknown Person deepens as cloak of secrecy descends on his case | National Post
“This court’s impression is that the Unknown Person considers himself to be the director of a play and Canadian authorities are but actors subject to his direction,” Judge B. Richard Bell wrote in his court decision in February.''

Lengthy.
Updated: May 13, 2019 by Adrian Humphreys
The 'Unknown Person': For six years, a man who refuses to identify himself has been held in a Canadian maximum-security prison | SaltWire

 

[branmuffin]

It seems as if being incarcerated in Ontario is much better than being free in Cameroon.

The only thing I can think of that makes incarceration preferable to freedom in his own country is that he has serious charges against him in either Cameroon or Haiti or other countries that could seal his fate forever.