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Iranian linked to terrorist cells arrested in Malaysia
Malaysian police have nabbed an Iranian document forger with links to terrorist cells, and human and drug trafficking syndicates
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Malaysian police have nabbed an Iranian document forger with links to terrorist cells, and human and drug trafficking syndicates.
Special Task Force (Operations and Counter Terrorism) director Commissioner Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the man identified as Seyed Ramin Miraziz Paknejad, 45, was arrested outside the Perkeso building at Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. on August 3.
Seyed was arrested on suspicion of forging international travel documents for various criminal organisations and terrorist elements, said Mohamad Fuzi in a statement on Tuesday.
Police found two fake passports and cash in various currencies after a check at Seyed Ramin's house in Jalan Ampang.
Mohamad Fuzi said Seyed was the mastermind behind the largest human trafficking syndicate in South-East Asia that trafficked Iranian nationals, until he was arrested in Pattaya, Thailand, in June last year.
'The syndicate he was leading had been operating for about five years and prepared over 3,000 forged documents, from which he made about 9 million ringgit (US$2.7 million),' he added.
Mohamad Fuzi said that during Seyed's arrest in Thailand, it was brought to light that he had also supplied forged documents to suspects behind a bombing incident in Thailand in February last year.
Sources said Seyed then managed to escape the clutches of the Thailand authorities and sneaked into Malaysia using a fake Turkish passport.
