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| Iranians held for kidnapping involved in passport racket |
| 2002-08-18 |
| Three Iranians arrested and charged with kidnapping a Canadian national in Bangkok are also believed to be involved in a fake passport racket, Thai police said Sunday. Iranian nationals Farhad Mohammadi, 31, Farhad Ali Nejad, 27 and Madhi Mohammadi, 29, were arrested Saturday after a Canadian businessman told police he had been abducted by the men. "They are members of a fake passport gang. They are producing fake passports for people to travel with to third countries like Japan and in Europe," police Colonel Thitirach Nonghanpitak told AFP. "The three were charged with kidnapping and police are working on whether to charge them for producing fake passports." Just a bunch of footloose Iranians, in Sex City, turning out fake documents and kidnapping people. They sound a pleasant lot... Canadian Joseph Mansouri told police the three men held him against his will after they lured him to a karaoke bar where they beat and gagged him. And hanging out in beer joints, too! What will the ayatollahs back home think? They then demanded he pay his own 25,000-dollar ransom and told him they were holding his wife Sarah Baandish and his brother Shahrok. Mansouri told police he had already paid 18,000 dollars to the gang, who escorted him to a bank on two occasions, but he managed to escape when they took him a third time to make the final withdrawal. Thereby avoiding having his throat slit and his body dumped in a canal. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Throat slit? They must not have been in Thailand long enough to learn the preferred method of stabbing 50 or so times and then dumping in the canal. I'm shocked, shocked I say! These Iranians are obviously not civilized enough to observe the cultural norms in foreign countries. |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2002-08-18 13:43:15 |