his included years ago a Ansett first officer who logged over 2400 hours of alleged instrument flight time as part of his 5000 hours total. It got him a job with a major foreign carrier where he made his millions
I thought in Europe IFR time was on IFR flight plans and they had something else for IMC time. They also log their command time and FO differently. So if applying under the rules of the foreign country his logbook would be correct.