A 45-year-old Sri Lankan man was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi Airport for trying to board a flight to France using a fake Malaysian passport.
According to a Bernama report which quoted the airport's immigration police commander Col Ploen Klinphayom, the incident happened yesterday when the man identified as Pirapu Tharmalingam was at the immigration counter at the international airport.
"He was about to board a Kuwait Airlines' plane to fly to Paris via Kuwait City," he told Bernama , adding that investigations revealed the Sri Lankan man entered Thailand through Betong in Yala province, southern Thailand on Sept 13.
According to the suspect , he bought the fake passport from an agent in Kuala Lumpur.
From Betong, the South Asian man whom the police confirmed was a first time traveller to Thailand.
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