Information About Incident 41389-79304-196341 in Galle Sri Lanka

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Authorities in Thailand arrested five people, including a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre, for producing and smuggling more than 300 fake European Union (EU) passports and other official European documents, officials said on December 11, according to Daily News.

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• Meta Location: Thailand
• Matched District: Galle
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Authorities in Thailand
• Subject: five people , including a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) cadre , for producing and smuggling more than 300 fake European Union ( EU ) passports and other official European documents

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Authorities in Thailand arrested five people, including a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre, for producing and smuggling more than 300 fake European Union (EU) passports and other official European documents, officials said on December 11, according to Daily News. They said Police seized from the group more than 300 bogus passports, produced in Thailand but made to look like official documentation from 14 EU countries including Britain, France and Belgium. The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said the suspects, all arrested since August 21, were 32-year-old Pakistani man Azad Said Giyani and a 35-year-old Sri Lankan man, known to be a LTTE cadre. A 43-year-old Thai woman was arrested for assisting them. A 38-year-old man from Myanmar was arrested on suspicion of producing the passports and a 28-year-old Thai woman is also being held for helping him.

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