Somaliland Police Arrests 5 People Accused of Producing Fake Passports

The Police in the breakaway Somaliland on Tuesday raided several apartments in Hargeisa and arrested five people suspected to be producing fake passports.
Officials said police officers acting on a tip-off from members of the public had carried out the raid and arrested the five whom they said will be arraigned in court.
Residents in the area confirmed the hearing gunfire during the operations to hunt down these suspects.
Witnesses said the suspects operated in a firm that deals in computer graphics where they printed fake materials including ID cards and passports.
They were found with at least several passports and other documents which the witnesses said would require “a person with hawk eyes” to detect as fake.
According to reports, the suspects were led to a police station in Kodbur neibourhood at Hargeisa.
The police officials declined to give further details of the suspects saying investigations will be launched into their cases.
Late last year, Somaliland authorities detained six people in connection fake passports.
A week later, a court in Hargeisa town has acquitted the suspects after they were found not guilty of charges leveled against them.