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made a new identity. this demand for you. my job. he's known as the don't. remember him. and he's helped criminals and terrorists move freely across the border. often to deadly effect. going on called. what i when a follows the hunt for the mafia forger. for years this man has created the world's. helping people out of

countries. now the doctor is revealing the secrets. around 40000000 people arrive in thailand every year hidden amongst the tourists terrorists drug dealers in future. by using forged passports. tile floor trying to crack down on the force and the criminals.

maybe but he had my bag i found by the. way don't panic with me neither do i but he is. known criminals need new identities to come and go and this is kept for jews in thailand busy. time that's kind of a uniquely positioned country so it's logistics for transnational crime. do we have drug inflows coming in from the m r we have. to be trafficking human trafficking migrants from all time kind of taking place here and organized crime groups are taking advantage of the borders of the country. bangkok's international airport is on the front line of thailand's defense against criminals

trying to enter on fake passports. and wait a long long. way and. by that method and hand man who are local and who have high profile i leave philly a cop long on and. off finance went on. to a subset you we now well as i say knew we couldn't have been good about i. think about going to. the one at home one at letting him get that he about one of the chinese. men that. let me. man that. burned on my gum. and how do you mean by how without

a look at. the food you sit at the center of a global criminal network that starts with the simple every day active theft. tourists obvious soft targets preyed upon by pickpockets both within thailand and around the world. those passport stores order will find their way across to thailand with careers. and then they will find customers but much of the profile of the document that's being stolen. the genuine passports are quickly passed on to the forges. some will simply alter the passports biodata pages names photos and countries of origin. master forges could create

a whole document from scratch so if your counterfeiting a whole document it will have no immigration history stamped into it quite often the fortune will stamps into a document to make it look as if the person is well traveled and is a lower threat than somebody who is not travel. when i was working at london heathrow the majority of forged documents were coming from thailand. the consequences of the forges activities can be deadly. in february 2012 bombers suspected to be agents of the iranian government tried to kill some israeli diplomats working in bangkok their bomb blew up prematurely wounding several passes by. c.c.t.v. shows the 3 suspects leaving the same.

call i love anymore. the. power. of. the word could to bontoc on. 2 of the would be bombers were arrested including one who lost both legs when he dropped an explosive device. one of the gang members got away slipping out of the country using a fake passport. thai police linked the men to a passport factory operated by irani siad partner john packed a job with arrested and jailed in thailand but he's capture did not end the danger posed by passport forge is based in thailand. 2 years

later passport forgery was linked to another far more devastating event on march 8th 2014 malaysian airlines flight 370 vanished shortly after leaving kuala lumpur for beijing with nearly 240 people on board. 2 iranians cleared immigration with forged documents. c.c.t.v. shows the men preparing to board the plane with fake italian and austrian past boards people began to understand how dangerous it is that people travel the world using stolen passports for fear of the concern we should all have. is that more than a 1000000000 times each year there are people that have across borders or board planes without having passports screening gets an equal status. interpol keeps a docile base of all possible worlds reported lost or stolen at the time m

h 370 vanished neither malaysia nor thailand was signed up to this database. the blood on how they. could be. a dick up into. the water. border security is now tighter than ever watch lists and increased high tech vigilance should be making it even more difficult for terrorists and criminals to escape detection. but they are still getting through and the top forgers in thailand is still in business.

this tie detective has been working on the m h 370 case for years he asked us to conceal his identity. well him up on. the quality of the forgeries pointed to one prime suspect. only

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to how my. then another terror attack changed the game this time in the heart of bangkok and the hunt for the doctor intensifying. one of the bomb suspects a we get from china's shing jang region was arrested days later you know bangkok suburb with multiple fake passports. and as police scoured the nation chasing down leads other foreigners were put under surveillance. this house in a bangkok suburb was of particular interest. the police start to tick of place i was sleeping i was a sleeping as was 8 o'clock. and they knocked the guard.

and when it came out. the police came gents. ruth if i got cuts in my bare their he says she's name is hammad reza jafari but he was a rested with 5 passports so the police a they're not sure who he really year is the doctor the forges forgit moved around undetected on fake passports between to years a master of deception who speaks several languages with the backstory that no one has been able to verify and there were a real business and your been have to lie to everybody it's make me am not

normal person i remember not normal person i want the poor more mockers the doctor says he came to thailand from a run as a stepping stone to canada where he planned to study computer science billy's just bad luck stopped his on would journey leading to a criminal career the would laugh the next 20 years a came here in kind now out i pay sung by the about 6000 a lark all make for the us or at where of got kind other but they took my money on it on a day. i started to learn about the phosphor by myself congo on the run they know they may not live here nor because they are a business. so i try to buy some. first. i find probably have them on a stolen wrong in the market i bought for cool on that one on that or something

like this. with thailand awash with stolen passports and clients plentiful it was time for the forges. using a closed shop in a bangkok tourist area at the front the dock to hone his skills and sold his porno . i know i. know i like jordan it was not difficult you know just mean the. immigration. h. was rich so i started to have more come on this guy. i take that. many names and. i would choose name one family from different people is not difficult. for making one possible. the doctor insisted his

customers follow his precise instructions for the deception to work. you need to remember everything about your name age. place where you're living rich city who is president who is your king. what is your boss call or like this anything. more you know much better. the dr would coaches customers to make sure they would not cause. if you turn your trouble your voice. but it's time you yours. before. same as before totally 4th are. they are sort of the trusting disposable blog your passport you know everything about. their country over the anywhere no problem. the police say the

doctor sold his product and skills to anyone with money to buy. he insists these clients were mainly migrants and refugees from iran. looking to escape to the west he also claims to be selective about his clients. and he denies that his work increases the risk of terrorist attacks. because i know the people coming. in from the prayers not to just to kill the people of innocent people is absolutely different. but he doesn't ask his clients many questions. to everybody pock the spin is kip the worst 'd of it i don't want to know. dr insists he has no links to criminal gangs tile thora he say phone records

linking directly to terror groups and organized crime. the doctor was finally put behind bars in 26 days. but the police investigation into his work continues slowly evidence emerges showing the key role played by the best passport forgit in the global security threats. from arrest interrogations and scenes telephone records police built up a picture of a network. a criminal web whose strength lay in its loose affiliations making perpetrators hard to pin down. at the center set the doctor down must a forger hammered reza jafari producing the best fake passports on the market.

the police were able to connect jafari to a number of other forges and middlemen. one key associate was a pakistani called abdul ghani aka babu. a well connected bangkok underworld fixer living in thailand on a retirement visa. korea cry. baba who was also a soldier himself producing low quality passports and

a fake european union driver's license. from. here. i mean. another pakistani bed acted as one of the doctors brokers. javid the doctor with. a far more sinister figure.

was wanted over links to the. blow up a pack train in madrid in 2004 killing 191 commuters. yeah. michael duffy mci l r o r what i'm going to have you know. mopping up the network has taken time. in early 20 a chain tie all parties now add another pakistani name muhammad bow he was caught

with fake singaporean passport a travel document ranked the most valuable in the world for its be the free agreements allowing holders to into other countries. type police say it was the integrity past of the doctors network. while the government says it boils work may have helped operatives for the islamic state. but while the doctor and his network may have been taken down the forgery business is true lucrative to just disappear i mean there's a big hole when i asked group of people making the billions of dollars every every year. us organized criminals honest it's probably 2nd only to drugs the biggest source of criminal money around the world.

technology may prove to be the game changer. in till now forges have kept pace with the changes in the manufacturing of passports probing for soft spots in global border security. but now there is something the all forces hope will disrupt the criminal networks biometrics i had and facial recognition often now impossible to fake while not every country can afford to go biometric yet experts say it is inevitable so what will be your passport and 15 years time it's going to be this. or is going to this is going to be there. to capture your identity when you're traveling you know better than a piece of paper african passports will be redundant. none of this matters anymore to the doctor he was jailed for 23 years but he's still time will be hard

because of these guilty pleas he says he hopes to one day remake his life as a free man and to shoot a long criminal career that has forced him into the shadows i getting all i don't want to get cats in the age of 55 or 6. if it's going to be happening now is that there's. i told myself. how long one of our movie. i really wanted to finish but i think that was the only way i could leave this job inside and so my heart i feel happy.

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