Thai passports ring: Pak man had LeT link

Last week,36-year-old Ghulam Rasool became the fourth person arrested in Thailand as part of the investigation.

Rasool was arrested in Bangkok on December 1 on charges of illegal entry to Thailand,pending a more thorough investigation that included a raid of the Bangkok apartment used as a base by the other three people arrested,said Songsak Raksakul,an official with the Department of Special Investigations. At the apartment,police found items used to produce fake documents such as passports,entry-exit stamps,and visa stickers.

DNA and fingerprint tests collected at the apartment could be traced to Rasool,who subsequently confessed to using Photoshop to make fake pictures for the forged passports,said Songsak.