Two men arrested for passport forgery
Police in Bangkok yesterday arrested a Pakistani and an Indian man for allegedly making forged passports - and selling them for Bt50,000 each.
Immigration Police chief Lt-General Suwat Thamrongsrisakul said they were looking for nine foreign nationals who had been identified as clients of Zulfiqar Ali, a Pakistani, and a man identified as Sonu, an Indian national.The officer said both men had denied any wrongdoing. They claimed the 23 passports found in their possession - 21 of which were copies of Indian passports, one Hong Kong and one German - actually belonged to an Indian man whom they could not identify. The suspects were arrested at a restaurant/guesthouse in the Phahurat area of Bangkok's Phra Nakhon district. The officer said the shop was a front and that police had evidence implicating both men as passport forgers. The Nation
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