| Thai authorities have seized more than a thousand fake Asian and Western passports and arrested a man in one of the biggest anti-counterfeiting operations in recent years, said police on Sunday. Mohammed Karim, a 56-year-old from Bangladesh, was nabbed in a Bangkok townhouse late on Saturday where they found a sophisticated passport making operation and more than 1,000 finished and unfinished documents, said Police Major-General Chaktip Chaichinda. “He admitted that he made fake passports,” Chaktip told reporters, adding that his partner, a Myanmar national, escaped arrest. The passports were for several countries including the United States, New Zealand, France, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Malta. Police seized two computers, a scanner, three printers and rubber stamps for several countries. “This guy is rich. He has a BMW. He said he made about 300,000-400,000 baht per month (around $10,000),” said Chaktip. |