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Briton held over fake passports

An Algerian-born Briton has been arrested in Thailand with hundreds of forged European passports intended for sale in London, Thai officials say.

Mahieddine Daikh, 35, was stopped at Bangkok airport early on Wednesday in possession of 452 fake passports from Spain, Belgium, Portugal and France.

Local police said Mr Daikh confessed to buying the documents for £3,000 on the island of Samui, southern Thailand.

He told security officials at the airport he was heading to Glasgow.

The Foreign Office has confirmed Mr Daikh's arrest and said he was receiving consular assistance.

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Thai police arrest British man with 452 fake passports

BANGKOK - Thai immigration police arrested a British national with 452 fake passports early Wednesday as he was about to board a flight to the Netherlands.


Mahieddine Daikh, 35, a British citizen who had migrated from Algeria, was arrested at Bangkok’s Don Muang International Airport before he was to board a China Airlines flight for the Netherlands, Police Major General Suwat Thamrongsrisakul said.

Daikh had arrived on a flight from Samui Island in southern Thailand and had not left the airport before his scheduled China Airlines flight.

“The suspect confessed he bought all the passports from a Pakistani for 3,000 pounds (5,475 dollars) on Koh (island) Samui,” Major General Suwat Thamrongsrisakul said.

It was Daikh’s second recent trip to Thailand. He was being held at the immigration jail in Bangkok.

Major General Suwat said police are continuing their investigation and when completed Daikh would be expelled from the country as a persona non grata and put on a black list so he may not return to Thailand.

The fake passports included 154 Belgian, 125 Portugese, 94 French, and 79 Spanish ones.

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