Brit Arrested with 452 Passports

(Bangkok, Thailand) An Algerian-born Brit was arrested at Bangkok International Airport for trying to smuggle 452 phony European passports out of Thailand.

From The Courier-Mail:

The suspect, identified as Mahieddine Daikh, 35, was arrested as he tried to board a China Airlines flight bound for Amsterdam carrying fake Belgian, French, Portuguese and Spanish documents.

"At first we found 138 forged passports in his carry-on bag," Colonel Chanatpol Yongbanjerd of the airport's immigration command said.

"Then we found another 314 in his checked luggage."

The man was en route to Scotland, Chanatpol said.

Thailand has been known as a source of forged documents.