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Group involved in printing fake passports arrested

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MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 1, 2021: A passenger of an evacuation flight from Afghanistan to Russia holds an Afghan passport after arriving at the Chkalovsky airfield. Three Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry delivered humanitarian aid to the Afghan people and evacuated 214 nationals of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghan students studying in Russian universities. Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS (Photo by Stanislav KrasilnikovTASS via Getty Images)
MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 1, 2021: A passenger of an evacuation flight from Afghanistan to Russia holds an Afghan passport after arriving at the Chkalovsky airfield. Three Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry delivered humanitarian aid to the Afghan people and evacuated 214 nationals of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghan students studying in Russian universities. Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS (Photo by Stanislav KrasilnikovTASS via Getty Images)

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Passport Department says some ‘profiteers’ have recently started selling fake passports printed abroad.

A statement from the Passport Department received by Pajhwok Afghan News said that detective officers of the department had arrested many people involved in the distribution of fake passports.

It said the detainees had confessed to their crimes that they illegally printed white passports in a neighboring country and then smuggled them to Afghanistan.

The statement did not name the country where the passports were printed, but said that the booklets were not only not registered with the Passport Department, but their fakeness was . . .

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