Document forgers nabbed
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Metropolitan Police yesterday announced the arrest of four document-forgers, who reportedly sold fake licence plates and related documents online, to those who wanted to obtained vehicles illegally.
The four suspects – Apidech Sitthiporn, 34, Pratheep Sansiri, 42, Naris Nanphosri, 55, and Nisakorn Kaewsri-ngam, 27, were arrested on Friday along with six fake car licence plates; 15 authentic blank car licence plates; 56 forged car registration books; 237 forged transport tax documents; 145 fake driver’s licences; a computer notebook and a printer.
Apidech was arrested in a police sting operation in Khanna Yao in Bangkok. This lead to the arrest of his supplier Pratheep and accomplices Naris and Nisakorn. The four suspects also reportedly told police they got documents to be forged with customers’ information provided by a middleman identified only as “Daeng”, who worked in the compound of the Land Transport Department.
