DUBAI: A total of 47,910 suspicious documents came up for inspection by the General Directorate for Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai (GDRFA-Dubai) under its Expertise Centre Identity and Fraud Documents (ECIFD) system at Dubai International Airport in 2014, down from 64,652 the previous year.
Disclosing this in a press statement, Major General Mohammad Al Marri, GDRFA-Dubai Director General, said on Tuesday: “GDRFA-Dubai is saving no efforts to ensure homeland security by using the highest technological standards at Dubai Airport that can detect even the highly sophisticated fake passports. ”
Easily exposed
Captain Abdullah Mohammad Al Mutawa, Director of ECIFD, said visitors trying to enter the country using fake identity documents are being easily exposed at the airport, due to the high-tech passport-reading and biometrics technology system designed to identify fraud.
He said a total of 1,027 fake documents were recovered by the ECIFD in 2014 compared to 968 in 2013. Of these, 818 were forged, 24 altered and 185 impersonated. He added that although identity documents from all over the world are becoming more difficult to copy, criminals try to commit look-alike fraud, which means that someone who looks like the original passport-holder tries to enter the country with that passport.
