A 27-year-old man has been jailed 20 months by the District Court for conspiring with four Mainlanders to facilitate their journey to Paris from Hong Kong via Singapore with fake passports.

Lam Wai pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess four forged travel documents.

Immigration officers intercepted Lam at Hong Kong International Airport last March when he was about to board a plane to Singapore.

Separately, two men and two women - Xue Zhangjie, 35, Zhang Dunqin, 33, Ni Meiying, 35, and Zhang Aizhu, 32 - were stopped before boarding another flight to Singapore the same day. They were found with fake Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Passports. They pleaded guilty to possessing a forged travel document last November and were jailed eight months.