PASSENGERWITH FAKED PASSPORT NABBED AT AIRPORT

The Foreign Employment Bureau officials were able to nab on suspicion a young woman passenger bound to Kuwait with a faked passport and a sub agent of a Job agency who had been assisting her.

The young woman a resident of Kotte had arrived at the air port to travel to Kuwait via Doha, and when the officers of the Foreign Employment Bureau inspected her passport, she had shown them a passport belonging to another woman.

When interrogated by the officials she had pleaded ignorance stating that she had paid rupees 60,000 to an agency in Colombo in order to secure a job of a housemaid in Kuwait and on arrival at the Air Port to board the flight, the suspected agent had taken her passport and had handed over a different passport, which she had realised only when it had been examined by the officials. The woman also said that she had been instructed by the agency to hand over her passport to the representative of the job agency when he calls over at the Air Port.

When the Job agent attempted to flee with the genuine passport the woman had given him, the Air Port police had been successful in apprehending him. The police had taken into custody the young woman and the job agent. The officials of the Bureau of Foreign Employment explaining further said that as and when women travel abroad as domestics it is obligatory that they should have been registered with them after a training and on being issued the relevant certificate and they should be over the age of twenty one. However, in this case the young woman was under 21

When the Job agent attempted to flee with the genuine passport the woman had given him, the Air Port police had been successful in apprehending him.

and had not being registered with the Bureau.

Due to the spate of rackets sending gullible young woman as domestics to the Gulf countries much vigilance is being exercised by the officials of the bureau within the Air Port.

This incident had revealed the modus operandi of these Job Agents, where these women were made to gain entrance to the AirPort Terminal using their Genuine Pass Ports and at the time of examination by bureau officials such passports are removed and another Registered pass port is stealthily handed over and once the bureau officials had scrutinized them, once again the original genuine passport is handed over to the passenger.

The Air Port police are continuing further investigations.