BANGKOK, Dec 2 – Passport forging suspects arrested in Thailand allegedly linked to terrorist groups involved in attacks in Spain have confessed to the crime of using Thailand as their base to counterfeit passports and other documents.the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) said Thursday.

DSI Director-General Tharit Pengdit said the two Pakistani men and one Thai woman involved with a transnational crime syndicate in Spain were arrested on Wednesday.

They allegedly used Thailand as their base to forge passports while the group’s members in Spain stole tourist passports there and sent them to Thailand for passport forgery for selling at prices from Bt50,000 upward, according to the DSI.

Their crime is linked to terrorists, who used fake passports in carrying out an attack on Madrid’s commuter trains in 2004 and a car bomb in India’s Mumbai in 2008.

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