{"id":35263,"date":"2019-05-30T23:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=35263"},"modified":"2019-05-30T23:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T03:01:05","slug":"several-agencies-investigating-fabricated-antigua-barbuda-passport-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/several-agencies-investigating-fabricated-antigua-barbuda-passport-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Agencies Investigating ‘Fabricated’ Antigua & Barbuda Passport – PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several state agencies are investigating a fabricated Antigua and Barbuda passport, Prime Minister Gaston Browne has announced.<\/p>

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He said on radio recently that the \u00a0\u201cparticular so-called passport which appears to be a manufactured one, a fabrication, that is a matter that is under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

He \u00a0said the Immigration Department, the Passport Office, the Director of Audit, the CIU and others are \u201cinvestigating that particular matter to see what the situation is.\u201d<\/p>

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Browne was at the time responding to reports on a blog which indicated Syrian national Mohamad Ayad Ghazal, the passport holder,\u00a0 used forged documents in support of his CBI application in Antigua.<\/p>

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Both Browne and the Citizenship by Investment Unit called the report completely false.<\/p>\n

The prime minister is alleging that \u201csome UPP person within the system leaked it (passport image) to Monte Friesner and to Kenneth Rijock, (authors of the blog).\u201d<\/p>

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He said the manufactured passport was created from documents stolen from the passport office.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we had a situation in which a person who was working in the passport office ostensibly was involved in stealing some of the documents and you had people who were trying to manufacture passports using the Antigua documents,\u201d he said.<\/p>

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Browne said this action justifies the move towards the issuance of new passports.<\/p>

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\u201cWe have now transitioned to biometric passports to avoid that type of mischief so they can\u2019t alter, replicate or copy it, I mean you now have a greater security mechanism in place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo unlike the machine-readable one that can be forged the biometric ones cannot be forged. And we want to make sure we maintain the integrity of our passport system\u2026\u201d the prime minister added.<\/p>\n

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Several state agencies are investigating a fabricated Antigua and Barbuda passport, Prime Minister Gaston Browne has announced. 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