Sri Lankan arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport for using Malaysian passport

By The Nation

 

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A Sri Lankan man was arrested Monday night at Suvarnabhumi Airport for using a Malaysian passport while trying to travel to France.

 

The man was arrested by at 9.30am by immigration police at the departure counter. 

 

He was about to board Kuwait Airlines flight KU414 to Kuwait, with a planned connecting flight to Paris.

 

Pol Colonel Ploen Klinphayom, commander of the Suvarnabhumi Immigration Office, named the Sri Lankan as Pirapu Tharmaligam, 45.

 

Ploen said Tharmaligam was using a passport in the name of a Malaysian man, whose face he resembled in the passport photograph.

 

However, when the immigration officer used the facial-identification technique, he found several discrepancies and concluded that Tharmaligam was an impostor.

 

The Sri Lankan told immigration police that he had travelled to Malaysia via Singapore and bought the passport from a Malaysian agent, whom he identified as Mala. 

 

He had paid 500,000 Sri Lankan rupees (Bt96,000) to the agent, he claimed.

 

Tharmaligam also said he had sneaked across the border into Thailand and travelled to Suvarnabhumi Airport to buy a ticket to France, from where he would travel to Switzerland. He said he had planned to seek asylum and stay with relatives in Switzerland, Ploen said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30355187

 

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Seek asylum?

43 minutes ago, sweatalot said:

Seek asylum?

no wars in sri lanka as far as i know.

i think he means pretend he's from a country that would be considered a war zone and claim asylum like so many do, or just disappear and live illegally.

Edited September 25, 20187 yr by Happy enough

If there ever was a case for mob justice, this is it.

I'm more curious about the 'tech' acquired?

Good one. Authorities did well.

I am more inclined to believe that they got him because he did not have an entry stamp in his passport.

Well done Immigration, one less refugee scrounging, free loading parasite to deal with.

Sneaked through border?

Means his passport was not chopped with arrival date stamp..Now, how could he leaves if he has "not arrived" ?

2 hours ago, Mickmouse1 said:

Sneaked through border?

Means his passport was not chopped with arrival date stamp..Now, how could he leaves if he has "not arrived" ?

thankfully, he didn't and that's probably why rather than an eagle eyed IO spotting that it wasn't his passport

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Sri Lankan arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport for using Malaysian passport

Sounds like a fair cop . . . or we'll have every Tom, Dick and Harry trying this 'easy' route to that Swiss-made cheese and schnitzel.