Illegal migrants used passport lookalikes in bid to evade police

By The Nation

 

A group of Cambodians have been arrested for using passports of look-alikes.

 

Thirteen Cambodians were carrying the passports of others when the van they were travelling in was stopped by police in Samut Prakan province on Thursday night. 

 

Although the photos on the passports looked a lot like the people using them, immigration police investigated further, after receiving a tipoff that a gang had illegally arranged the loan of real passports to give to illegal migrants. 

 

“We have heard that the passports are supplied just for the illegal workers to produce when they run into police,” Immigration Bureau’s chief Pol Lt General Nattorn Prohsunthorn said at a press conference Thursday. “Now, they have confessed to their crime.” 

 

Immigration police got suspicious when they flagged down a van on the outbound Bang Na-Trat Road in Samut Prakan’s Bang Sao Thong district, and found 13 Cambodians and Peng Phosai, a 50-year-old Thai, inside.

 

Further investigation revealed that none of the Cambodians had their own passports. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30309310

 

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Thailand needs the finger print recognition device hookup with Interpol.

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“Now, they have confessed to their crime.” 

Persuasion free????

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

after receiving a tipoff

Same old "tip off "story. The RTP sit there playing with their handheld's until the dobber calls them and then swing into action to be the heroes. Hopeless cretins.