{"id":735,"date":"2008-04-28T04:12:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T12:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/?p=735"},"modified":"2008-04-28T04:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T12:12:52","slug":"hundreds-of-fake-passports-seized-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of fake passports seized in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai police arrested and charged a man from Bangladesh found in possession of hundreds of fake passports and visas, a senior police official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Karim, 56, was arrested in a rented house in Bangkok by police investigating a gang of foreign counterfeiters.<\/p>\n<p>They found 90 real passports, 577 fake US and European passports, 680 counterfeit visas and 1,680 fake passport photo pages, mostly for American passports, said police Lieutenant Colonel Sophon Sarapat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Karim confessed and he was charged with conspiring to make counterfeit passports for sale, and making fake visas,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>One Thai and one Myanmar citizen also alleged to be involved in the global counterfeiting ring escaped, Sophon added.<\/p>\n<p>Karim could face a maximum of 20 years in jail if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Passport fraud is a common problem in Thailand. At the end of 2006, Thai and US police launched a joint sting operation which netted 500 fake US passports.<\/p>\n<p>A Thai man and a Pakistani man were arrested on that occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai police arrested and charged a man from Bangladesh found in possession of hundreds of fake passports and visas, a senior police official said on Sunday. Mohammed Karim, 56, was arrested in a rented house in Bangkok by police investigating a gang of foreign counterfeiters. They found 90 real passports, 577 fake US and European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[12,17,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}