A 40-year-old man carrying a fake Malaysian passport is arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport on Friday morning after a biometric facial recognition detects his passport fraud. (Supplied photo via Wassayos Ngamkham)A foreigner carrying a fake Malaysian passport was arrested with $500,000 at Suvarnabhumi airport on Friday morning in the first passport-fraud arrest based on biometric facial recognition. The Asian man carrying a Malaysian passport under the name of Oh chee boon went to the airport immigration checkpoint to have his face scanned by the biometric facial recognition system at around 10.30am. Pol Col Roengron said the man insisted he was the same person shown in the passport but his passport was found to be fake. Immigration officers find $500,000 in the possession of the suspect using a fake Malaysian passport.

Source: Bangkok Post May 24, 2019 10:59 UTC