By Phillip Yu
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Half a decade ago, Thai and Spanish authorities arrested Muhammed Ather
"Tony" Butt and Ahboor Rambarak Fath and uncovered more than 1,000
stolen passports from North America and Asia. Besides selling falsified
passports to international criminal groups involved in arms trafficking and
human trafficking, Butt also allegedly supplied passports to the terrorist
group accused of plotting the 2008
Mumbai attacks. Organized passport fraud allegedly began in Thailand in the
1980s with stolen passports now selling between $1,500 and $3,000 each
depending on country of issuance.
While there is no evidence yet that the recently vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight
MH370 was the victim of a terror
attack, the news that two passengers were travelling on passports stolen in
Thailand has raised tremendous concern about Thailand’s illegal market for stolen
or falsified passports.
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