The mystery of fake travel papers
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Ping Lacson insists that the travel document he had traveled with to return to the Philippines after a year living the life of a fugitive is authentic, a direct contrast to what the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the government agency that would certainly know whether the papers are authentic or faked.
The DFA had already come out openly to state that Lacson’s travel document was a fake, mainly because the numbered document Lacson claims he had, granted him by a Philippine consulate which neither he, nor the immigration chief in Cebu who had met him and gave him and his arrival special treatment, is still with the DFA, and has not been issued as yet.
The DFA also said it had checked with various Philippine consulates, Macao, Xiamen and Hong Kong and not one had issued the travel documents for Lacson. Moreover, the numbered document Lacson claimed he had, is still with the DFA..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110711com2.html
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