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TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1990

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INTERNATIONAL FORGED TRAVEL DOCUMENT SYNDICATE SMASHED

AN

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN HONG KONG AND CANADA HAVE

SYNDICATE BELIEVED TO BE

IN INTERNATIONAL

ENGAGED THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) TO SEEK RESIDENTS OF RESIDENCE IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES THROUGH HONG KONG FORGED TRAVEL DOCUMENTS.

SMASHED ARRANGING ILLEGAL BY USING

OFFICERS OF THE DETAILS OF THE JOINT OPERATION, DURING WHICH IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT AND THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE WORKED

WITH THE ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE AND THE POLICE, WERE GIVEN BY THE H. AD OF THE INVESTIGATION

DEPARTMENT, NR OF THE IMMIGRATION CONFERENCE THIS EVENING (TUESDAY).

CLOSELY TORONTO

TANG

CHIU-SHING,

METROPOLITAN

DIVISION

AT

A PRESS

IN HONG

CARRIED OUT SIMULTANEOUSLY ON AUGUST 2, RAIDS WERE KONG AND TORONTO RESULTING IN ROUNDING UP A TOTAL OF 15 SUSPECTS.

HONG

KONG,

AND IMMIGRATION

DURING THE OPERATION IN

NINE PERSONS INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED 35 LOCATIONS. AS A RESULT, ARRESTED AND SOME 700 EXHIBITS WERE SEIZED INCLUDING 15 FORGED AND DIES FOR FORGING TRAVEL DOCUMENTS.

TORONTO, ON THE OTHER

POLICE WERE SEALS

HAND, HAD

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS IN ARRESTED SIX PERSONS AND SEIZED A NUMBER OF DOCUMENTS INCLUDING FORGED SINGAPOREAN PASSPORTS AND RECORDS.

YEAR

THIS

THE HONG KONG-CANADIAN JOINT INVESTIGATIONS BEGAN IN JUNE

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION WERE CONDUCTED IN HONG KONG BY THE AND

IMMIGRATION SECTION OF

DEPARTMENT AND THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION INTELLIGENCE BUREAU OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE.

IN CANADA,

THE

OPERATIONS

WERE

CARRIED OUT BY THE ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE AND THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO POLICE.

MR TANG

RECOUNTED THAT IN FEBRUARY THIS

AIRPORT RESIDENTS WERE ARRESTED AT KAI TAK

WERE FOR BANGKOK. THEY CONNECT SINGAPOREAN PASSPORTS AND IT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT TO SEEK ILLEGAL RESIDENCE IN CANADA.

FLIGHT

THREE PRC YEAR, WHEN THEY ATTEMPTED TO FOUND

FORGED POSSESSING

THEY INTENDED

FOR

PRC,

FROM A TOTAL OF 25 PERSONS BETWEEN MARCH AND JULY, ARRESTED IN

KONG HONG

USING FORGED SINGAPOREAN,

BRAZILIAN, BRITISH (HONG

DOCUMENTS, KONG)

PRC WERE INCLUDING

PASSPORTS

AND

IDENTITY CARDS.

INVESTIGATIONS

POLICE OFFICIALS

BY HONGKONG IMMIGRATION AND

HAD IDENTIFIED MEMBERS OF THE SYNDICATE BELIEVED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE CASES AND THEY WERE PUT UNDER CLOSE SURVEILLANCE.

MEANWHILE, THE METROPOLITAN TORONTO POLICE WAS INVESTIGATING SYNDICATE OPERATING BETWEEN TORONTO AND THE FAR EAST.

A

/THE SYNDICATE