The Telegraph, 7 Jun 2011Airline passengers are being put at risk because of the existence of millions of stolen and forged passports, an aviation conference has been told.
Ron Noble, the Secretary General of Interpol, said only one in two passports were checked against the database of stolen documents.
“The number one risk confronting airlines and countries around the world is the risk terrorists or other dangerous persons will carry a fraudulent identity document and move from one country to another,” he said. Full story
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