BELGIUM IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES AT BRUSSELS ARRESTED ONE IRANIAN WITH FORGED ISRAELI PASSPORT WITH TWO OTHER NATIONALS AS THEY WERE ON WAY TO CANADA AS ISRAELI PASSPORT IS NOT BIOMETRIC THEREFORE EASY TO FORGE Yet again, Iranian caught with forged Israeli passport Another serious incident of identity theft • Three travelers, one from Iran, are caught in Brussels with Israeli passports • Population, Immigration and Border Authority: The current passport is easy to forge, biometric passports are a solution. Three passengers were caught in early September with forged Israeli passports at Brussels airport in Belgium, officials have said. The passports belonged to Israeli citizens living in Israel, and are suspected of having been stolen from their owners and doctored. Two of them were reported lost or stolen, but there was no such report concerning the third passport, possibly because its owner was not aware it was missing. This incident is particularly concerning as one of the passengers was identified as an Iranian citizen, who could use the passport to threaten Israeli security. The other two have not yet been identified, but are thought to be Eastern European. The three were on their way to Canada, with the Iranian planning to arrive in Toronto and the others to Montreal. The fraud is being investigated by the Belgian authorities and the Population, Immigration and Border Authority is transferring the information to all relevant officials in Israel. The forged passports have obvious mistakes: On one, for example, Tel Aviv is written in English on one side and Ashtali is written in Hebrew on the opposite side instead of the Hebrew characters for Tel Aviv. The incident has been transferred to us for inspection, the Population, Immigration and Border Authority told Israel Hayom. Every day, documents are transferred to Deputy Director of Administration for Border Crossings Eran Zehavi from diplomatic representatives in Israel to check their authenticity, accuracy and the details that appear on them. The Border Authority added that this is not the first time Israeli passports were caught in foreign airports, and they are transferred to us because of the vigilance of immigration authorities worldwide.This latest incident follows the attempt of seven Iranians to enter Vancouver, Canada with forged Israeli passports in July of this year. They had used the identities of a family of seven from the Israeli city of Rehovot. Similar errors in Hebrew spelling and translation to English were also found on those doctored passports.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:35:36 +0000
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