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LONDON, July 4 – An Albanian was arrested by British police as part of a gang producing false passports in Britain.
British police arrested five men following raids on a major false-passports operation.
London’s Metropolitan Police say the suspects include three Bulgarians, one man from Kosovo and one Albanian.
In raids Tuesday, police say they seized more than 1,800 counterfeit passports, including more than 200 British documents.
They also confiscated 562 Finnish passports, 428 Portuguese, 62 Korean, and forgeries from Latvia, Slovenia, Albania, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Belgium and France.
A police spokesman says the estimated street value of the seizure is well over a million pounds, equivalent to some $2.1 million.
