Crime Israeli Man Arrested for Using Fake Passport at Suvarnabhumi Airport

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Immigration police at Suvarnabhumi Airport apprehended an Israeli man attempting to leave Thailand using a fake passport.

 

The arrest occurred when police officer Sgt. Jaraya Akkhad discovered the fraudulent document while checking passports at checkpoint DW8. The suspect, identified as Mr. Cohen, an Israeli born on 17 December 198X, was scheduled to fly home on EL AL flight LY82, departing at 22:40.

 

Biometric scans revealed discrepancies between the passport and the suspect's fingerprints, which matched another Israeli named Mr. Kakon, born on 29 January 198X.

 

Further investigation by the authorities, in collaboration with airline personnel, confirmed the passport was indeed counterfeit. The document lacked the security features standard in Israeli passports.

 

The suspect was handed over to Immigration Division 2 for legal proceedings, and the incident was officially documented.

 

Police Lieutenant General Panumart Boonnilaks and Police Major General Thanit Thaiwacharamas have ordered stricter entry and exit checks to ensure national security.

 

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from INN News 2025-05-23

 

 

[mikeymike100]

So this proves that the bio metric scans do actually work!

[khunjeff]

So why was he using the fake passport? Obviously it would have been detected on arrival in Israel, so the scam wouldn't have gotten very far 🤔

[hotchilli]

2 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

So this proves that the bio metric scans do actually work!

In this case yes... but I wouldn't go as far as to say all.

[MalcolmB]

5 minutes ago, khunjeff said:

So why was he using the fake passport? Obviously it would have been detected on arrival in Israel, so the scam wouldn't have gotten very far 🤔

Wanted in Thailand under his real name? 
You never can tell with these people.

[BangkokHank]

It's always the same people who commit these crimes: The ones with the blurry faces. That should be a tip-off for the authorities right away.

[madone]

16 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

You never can tell with these people.

 

what people?

[AustinRacing]

22 minutes ago, khunjeff said:

So why was he using the fake passport? Obviously it would have been detected on arrival in Israel, so the scam wouldn't have gotten very far 🤔

Don’t discount Mosad agent. 

[Quentin Zen]

So maybe that means the person behind that passport might be in trouble!!! Look, your Honor (honour, who knows in Britspeak), I couldn't have done anything; he left Bangkok.

 

10,000 CCTV cameras, zillion videos, whatever....  oh, ah....well, in the movies it works!!!  

 

20's....  kids this age have crazy imaginations.    and very little common sense.  

[FlorC]

Put him on a plane to Tehran.

[CanadaSam]

Embarrassing for the Mossad, they regularly use different passports, this time perhaps thinking the Thai fingerprint system is useless (as most believe).

[Nick Carter icp]

36 minutes ago, CanadaSam said:

Embarrassing for the Mossad, they regularly use different passports, this time perhaps thinking the Thai fingerprint system is useless (as most believe).

 

   Where was it stated that the Mossad were involved ?

[Nick Carter icp]

1 hour ago, madone said:

 

what people?

 

   He means "Jews"

Don't even waste your time tying to explain anything 

[HauptmannUK]

I heard the biometric software at BKK was supplied by an Israeli company. If he was a Mossad agent then a bit of an oversight to not incorporate an 'ignore switch' when a Mossad fake passport is scanned.

[Nick Carter icp]

Just now, HauptmannUK said:

I heard the biometric software at BKK was supplied by an Israeli company. If he was a Mossad agent then a bit of an oversight to not incorporate an 'ignore switch' when a Mossad fake passport is scanned.

 

  Why would he be a Mossad agent ?

Would you think that an American citizen with a false passport would be a CIA agent or a British guy with a   false passport be an M.I 5 agent ?

[Nick Carter icp]

1 hour ago, khunjeff said:

So why was he using the fake passport? Obviously it would have been detected on arrival in Israel, so the scam wouldn't have gotten very far 🤔

 

  Could have just overstayed in Thailand , used a friends passport to leave Thailand and then enter Israel on his Israel passport ?

[ChipButty]

Dont worry the Israeli embassy will get him out of there, EL AL will not leave without him, on that plane is 8 IDF special forces guys, and armed, 

[Photoguy21]

How did he get into the country if his passport was fake?

[swerve]

18 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

How did he get into the country if his passport was fake?

Article didn't say he used the same exiting passport to get into Thailand.  Maybe he bought the other Israeli passport while in Thailand or already had it.

[BusyB]

1 hour ago, AustinRacing said:

Don’t discount Mosad agent. 

 

Nah. Then he'd have had a real Israeli PP in a false name not a forgery or tweaked one matching someone else.

[Nick Carter icp]

4 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

How did he get into the country if his passport was fake?

 

   Mossad smuggled him into Thailand on a secret mission to arrest one of the last known former members of the Nazi party, Malcolm Baader .

   A failed mission, just like when Mossad tried to arrest Josef Mengele 

[BusyB]

33 minutes ago, HauptmannUK said:

I heard the biometric software at BKK was supplied by an Israeli company. If he was a Mossad agent then a bit of an oversight to not incorporate an 'ignore switch' when a Mossad fake passport is scanned.

 

Why would any intelligence service issue fake PPs instead of pucker gen originals with the bios and false name of the holder/agent. Doesn't make sense.

 

They have access to the real things. No need to risk fakery.

[Hummin]

1 hour ago, CanadaSam said:

Embarrassing for the Mossad, they regularly use different passports, this time perhaps thinking the Thai fingerprint system is useless (as most believe).

 

1 hour ago, AustinRacing said:

Don’t discount Mosad agent. 

Mossad do not do simple mistakes 

 

Just another D head or P head

[Homburg]

Why would anyone do that?  I'd expect that passport control in Israel would be absolutely certain to pick up a fake document, so he wouldn't be able to enter the country,

 

Does that suggest that whatever he had in mind only required that he successfully board the aircraft?

 

Perhaps check his luggage very, very, very carefully.

[Nick Carter icp]

9 hours ago, Homburg said:

Why would anyone do that?  I'd expect that passport control in Israel would be absolutely certain to pick up a fake document, so he wouldn't be able to enter the country,

 

Does that suggest that whatever he had in mind only required that he successfully board the aircraft?

 

Perhaps check his luggage very, very, very carefully.

 

   What are you saying ?

He might have intended to blow the airplane up with a bomb ?

BTW, Israel would have allowed him to enter Israel and he may have intended to enter Israel on his own Passport)

[Homburg]

5 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   What are you saying ?

He might have intended to blow the airplane up with a bomb ?

BTW, Israel would have allowed him to enter Israel and he may have intended to enter Israel on his own Passport)

From reading the OP it appears that Thai immigration found that his fingerprints matched those of another Israeli named Mr. Kakon - but does that mean he is Mr Kakon or does it mean that he at some time had passed through Thai immigration using a passport that identified him as Mr Kakon?

 

Perhaps his genuine passport will be found in his luggage, but there is otherwise no indication in the OP that he was in possession of another passport? 

 

These days immigration links to airline passenger data so a reasonable expectation would be that there would be an issue in Israel if he tried to change passports and enter using a name not on any passenger manifest (especially as reports that I have read suggest that Israeli airport security is far tighter than in many other destinations) so I'm not sure that Israeli immigration would have admitted him?

 

 

[Acharn]

22 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Why would he be a Mossad agent ?

Would you think that an American citizen with a false passport would be a CIA agent or a British guy with a   false passport be an M.I 5 agent ?

Yes.

[Photoguy21]

22 hours ago, swerve said:

Article didn't say he used the same exiting passport to get into Thailand.  Maybe he bought the other Israeli passport while in Thailand or already had it.

It is possible but even if it was, why would he do that as if he came in on a different passport it had to have at least 6 months validity?

[Photoguy21]

22 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Mossad smuggled him into Thailand on a secret mission to arrest one of the last known former members of the Nazi party, Malcolm Baader .

   A failed mission, just like when Mossad tried to arrest Josef Mengele 

Nice fantasy but I suggest what ever you are on you stop.

[cjinchiangrai]

23 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Why would he be a Mossad agent ?

Would you think that an American citizen with a false passport would be a CIA agent or a British guy with a   false passport be an M.I 5 agent ?

All three would have government issued papers that work.