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Thursday, January 20, 2005 - Web posted at 7:41:49 GMT Home Affairs says net closing in on forgery masterminds LINDSAY DENTLINGERTHE Ministry of Home Affairs says there have been major new developments in cracking down on the forgery of immigration documents for foreigners, but yesterday back-tracked on a decision to reveal these to the media. |
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A media conference was called yesterday afternoon by Immigration Deputy Director Nkrumah Mushelenga, but after a half an hour's wait journalists were informed that he could no longer share the developments. Last September, four Namibians were arrested and nearly thirty passports confiscated from a back-door operation in Khomasdal that was issuing fake documents and charging foreigners thousands of dollars for them. Mushelenga has, however, confirmed that the most recent developments in the crack-down on the forgery of official documents were linked to this discovery. At least twenty passports, mostly foreign, were prepared for display to journalists at the ministry's offices yesterday, apparently containing fake permits. The Police Public Relations Division could not confirm yesterday whether any more arrests had been made in connection with the most recent discoveries. The syndicate that the immigration department swooped on last year had used simple home office equipment - a small scanner and two inkjet printers - to print fake documents, mostly work and residence permits. At the time, people who had either been duped by, or knowingly participated in the scam, were requested to hand in their identity documents to the Ministry of Home Affairs by mid-November to avoid prosecution. |
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