Judiciary citizenship bungle: Uber rapist refugee lied to get to Australia

A FAKE Pakistani refugee (pictured) who raped a female customer he picked up while driving an Uber was in Australia only because a court stopped the federal government from kicking him out of the country.

Muhammad Naveed leaves The Downing Centre Court. He was charged with sexually assaulting a female British tourist.

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A FAKE Pakistani refugee who raped a female customer he picked up while driving an Uber was in Australia only because a court stopped the federal government from kicking him out of the country.

In the latest judiciary citizenship bungle, The Daily Telegraph can reveal Muhammad Naveed was a fake refugee with bogus documents who once returned to ­Pakistan — even though he had said going home would put him in danger.

The 41-year-old was convicted of a sickening 2015 rape on Tuesday and sentenced to a minimum of six years and four months in jail.

Muhammad Naveed has been convicted of raping a woman in 2015, after picking her up in his Uber.

His visa application was rejected by the government in 2013 but that decision was overturned later that year by the Refugee Review Tribunal, now part of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

The AAT has been embroiled in controversy since The Daily Telegraph recently revealed it had stopped several murderers, rapists and other hardened criminals from being deported.

Naveed’s visa was cancelled again after Pakistani officials confirmed he had fabricated numerous documents on which he relied to claim his brother had been kidnapped and he was under threat.

Naveed returned to Pakistan for a month in 2015.

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He returned again two months before he was charged with raping his ­female passenger.

A Sydney court heard the young heavily intoxicated woman had fallen asleep in the car and woke to find Naveed on top of her.

“The victim was highly vulnerable because of her intoxicated state and the prisoner took full advantage of it,” Judge Deborah Payne said.

Naveed maintained he engaged in consensual sex.

He arrived in Australia on a student visa, and later applied for a protection visa with his wife and children, claiming he had been abducted­ and held for ransom­.

Despite the Immigration­ Department finding in January 2013 that he had exaggerated or fabricated the claims, Naveed successfully applied to the RRT using documents purportedly from Pakistani authorities.

Minister for Immigration Peter Dutton.

But less than one year later, after he lodged a visa application for his mother, authorities in Islamabad told migration officials those documents were bogus.

Naveed’s protection visa was only permanently cancelled one month after he was charged, and his bridging visa cancelled only this March.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton earlier this week cancelled the visas of six Iranian queue jumpers who were caught holidaying in their homeland after lying on their visa applications about fearing for their lives if they had to return­ there.