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Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Passport Sale Allegations.

Passport fraud detection safeguards

Summary

Griffin asked whether other embassies were suspected and urged consideration of technology to detect fraud. The Minister said the known fraud concerned only the London office and was too sophisticated for the proposed technology to detect.

Is any other embassy under suspicion of issuing forged passports? I understand that a commercial technological firm offered assistance to the Department of Foreign Affairs to introduce criminal proof equipment which would detect the type of fraud about which we have been talking. Will the Minister recommend to his Department that they should look at this type of equipment so that there will not be a repetition of cases of this kind?

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Seán Treacy An Ceann Comhairle Independent

The Deputy is introducing new matter.

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I know of the report to which the Deputy refers but no technology would have detected the sophisticated nature of this fraud which only relates to the London office and bears no relationship to anything that may have happened in regard to Iran. It relates to Moroccan ladies who were involved in the receipt of these passports.

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