Iranian Couple Caught Using Fake Israeli Passports in Argentina
IsraelDefense
| 17/03/2019
Photo: AP
Argentinian intelligence officers arrested two Iranian citizens in Buenos Aires suspected of traveling on forged Israeli passports, local media reported on Saturday.
The couple, identified by local reports as Sajjad Samiel Naserani, 27, and Mashoreh Sabzali, 30, was arrested on Tuesday traveling on forged Israeli passports under the fake names of Netanel and Rivka Toledano.
Authorities are treating the couple as possible terror suspects and have since raised the level of alert in Argentina, Argentinian Clarin reported.
The couple had flown from Spain to Buenos Aires last week and were allowed into the country before being arrested at a hotel days later. Their phones and camera were confiscated. The investigation involved branches of Interpol in Argentina, Spain, and Israel, according to Clarin.
Authorities initially suspected the passports had been stolen, but later concluded they were forgeries after finding numerous Hebrew spelling mistakes on the official documents.
The investigation comes amid commemorations for the March 17th, 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in the Argentinian capital. The suicide car bomb attack, which killed 29 and injured 242, was carried out by the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad Organization.
[Source: i24News]
Photo: AP
Argentinian intelligence officers arrested two Iranian citizens in Buenos Aires suspected of traveling on forged Israeli passports, local media reported on Saturday.
The couple, identified by local reports as Sajjad Samiel Naserani, 27, and Mashoreh Sabzali, 30, was arrested on Tuesday traveling on forged Israeli passports under the fake names of Netanel and Rivka Toledano.
Authorities are treating the couple as possible terror suspects and have since raised the level of alert in Argentina, Argentinian Clarin reported.
The couple had flown from Spain to Buenos Aires last week and were allowed into the country before being arrested at a hotel days later. Their phones and camera were confiscated. The investigation involved branches of Interpol in Argentina, Spain, and Israel, according to Clarin.
Authorities initially suspected the passports had been stolen, but later concluded they were forgeries after finding numerous Hebrew spelling mistakes on the official documents.
The investigation comes amid commemorations for the March 17th, 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in the Argentinian capital. The suicide car bomb attack, which killed 29 and injured 242, was carried out by the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad Organization.
[Source: i24News]
