An Iranian couple caught at Suvarnabhumi airport carrying fake Bulgarian passports confessed they bought them for 500,000 baht from an Iranian in India and had planned to seek asylum on arrival in London.
Ali Javanmakdroup, 27, and his wife Fatemeh Pouyani, 26, Iranian nationals, were about to board a TG910 flight to London when they aroused the suspicions of immigration police in the departure hall on the fourth floor of the passenger terminal at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday afternoon.
The officers asked to see their passports. The couple produced their Bulgarian passports, which on examination proved to be false, Pol Col Sitthichai Lorkanpai, acting chief of the Immigration Police Division 2, said on Friday.
The two tourists confessed they had obtained the fake passports from an Iranian man living in India. The man, whose name was not known, had charged them US$7,000 for each passport, about 250,000 baht. They told police they needed the counterfeit passports to seek asylum in Britain, Thairath Online reported.
They were handed over to airport police to face charges of falsifying passports and using them.