Men caught attempting to fly on fake IDs

Two Syrian men were remanded for two days by Paphos district court on Monday following their arrest on Sunday after they attempted to board a plane to Stockholm using counterfeit identity cards.
Suspicions were raised at Paphos Airport when firstly a 19-year-old Syrian man attempted to board the flight at 11.30am using a Romanian identity card and a boarding pass with the same name. The Syrian man told police he had bought the identity card in May from an unknown person in Limassol for €1,000.
The second Syrian man, 22, attempted to board the plane ten minutes later using an Italian identity card. The ID card was not counterfeit but had been altered, police said. The 22-year-old told officers that he had bought the ID card from a Romanian man in Paphos for €800.
It was later established that the 22-year-old is on the stop list after his residency permit had expired in August 2011.

 

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