A 37-year-old Iraqi national of Kurdish descent was arrested at Athens International Airport on Sunday after he attempted to travel with a passport stolen by ISIS.
The passport was among a number of passports stolen by Islamic State jihadists from a citizen’s service center in the Iraqi province of Nineveh. Iraqi authorities had cancelled the passport.
The man is a permanent resident in Greece. Upon his arrest he claimed the passport was sent to him by a relative since he is not allowed to leave the country on account of his involvement in a human trafficking case.
The man is detained on charges of obtaining a false official document and violating laws on illegal aliens and the migration code. He will be led before an Athens Misdemeanours Court prosecutor.
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