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28 fake documents seized at Dubai airport
2014-02-06
The Dubai Customs recently foiled two separate attempts to smuggle 28 counterfeited documents, including 25 visas, and three passports, at the Dubai International Airport, Terminal 3.

A senior official said that smuggling of 25 fake visas was intercepted with the arrest of a passenger coming from Pakistan an Asian country, while three forged African passports were seized in another smuggling bid.
It's like in America: when the media doesn't tell you the political affiliation of a pol caught doing some crime, you know he's a Democrat. If the Arab media doesn't tell you the nationality of the 'Asian', you can be comfortably certain he's a Pakistani...
Ali Al Mugahwi, Director of Airport Operations Department at Dubai Customs, on Wednesday said the Pakistani Asian passenger, implicated in the first seizure, was held when he stepped into the Customs inspection area.

"The customs inspectors suspected the Pakistani passenger when he anxiously denied having anything to declare, and showed signs of worry while talking to the officer."

The inspector, on searching the Pakistani passenger's baggage, found a number of entry permits issued from some Pakistani Asian countries. "These visas later turned out to be fabricated, just like some other fake documents found in possession of the man who was supposed to deliver the documents to other people here in the UAE against some money."

Al Mugahwi said the Dubai Customs inspectors in a separate incident, apprehended another passenger, with three African passports which later proved to be fake.

"The suspect was hiding the forged passports inside a book in his belongings, but the vigilant inspectors detected them through a sophisticated screening machine due to an abnormal thickness in the book."

Adding, Al Mugahwi said the two passengers, following investigation at the Passengers Investigation Office of the Airports Operations Department, admitted to their crime.

"They said they were planning to hand over the fraudulent visas and passports to other individuals in the UAE to use for illegal purposes."
Posted by:Steve White

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