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Czech police uncover passport counterfeiting ring
Mar 17, 2010, 18:55 GMT
Prague - Czech police said Wednesday they have uncovered a four-member passport counterfeiting gang operating from the Czech Republic.
Police charged a 41-year-old Albanian national with forging the lost or stolen identity documents and a Czech woman aged 61 with selling and transporting them.
A 32-year-old man arrested in Romania and a 42-year-old British citizen were the other members of the gang.
Detectives were tipped off after forged Czech passports were seized in an illegal migration case in Germany. Further arrests were made in Britain and Spain, police said.
A search of the Albanian's home in the north-eastern city of Ostrava turned up 300 Czech passports, more than 100 identity cards and several dozen driver's licenses as well as Slovak, Polish, Hungarian and Italian travel documents.
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