Thai police arrested two Pakistani men for allegedly purchasing stolen passports that were to be altered and then sold, police said on Sunday. They seized a total of 112 passports. Acting on a tip, police investigators followed Muhammad Saqib and Amanullah on Saturday in the parking lot of Bangkok’s international airport, a tourist police bureau statement said. Police arrested the men after a foreign woman gave them a grey suitcase in which police later found 58 stolen passports from 13 countries, mostly European, the statement said. The woman fled the scene and escaped, it said.It said Saqib told police that they had met the woman, identified as an Italian named Tara, near the popular backpacker street Khao San Road. It said they ordered and purchased the passports, which she delivered to them on Saturday. Near the airport, police later found a bag belonging to the woman which contained 54 more stolen passports, the statement said. It said the suspects had planned to deliver the passports to a foreigner named Johnny who would alter and then sell them. The passports were from 10 European countries, New Zealand, Vietnam and Israel. Fifty-three were from France and 25 were from Northern Ireland, tourist police said.
| You wonder at what point the Thais will pass a law limiting Pakistanis to no more than, oh, five passports or so. |