The Migration of Paraguay warned that the mafias engaged in selling fake passports can also provide documentation of illegal terrorist groups, referring to the recent arrests of Syrian citizens in Paraguay, Costa Rica and Honduras.
"The region needs to get to the criminal organization that sells these passports, for surely they are also able to document terrorists," said the director of Migration, Jorge Kronawetter, Efe said.
According Kronawetter, research undertaken in Paraguay Monday following the arrest of a Syrian citizen in Asuncion airport subsequent arrests allowed five Syrians in Honduras and a woman of the same nationality in Costa Rica.
He warned that they all carried Greek passports whose origin would be authentic, but with false content.
He also noted that allegedly is Syrians would seek refuge and fleeing the conflict in the country, where thousands of people have fled since the outbreak of civil war in 2011, which has left more than 250,000 dead and 4 million refugees, according UN data.
"The Syrian citizen found with false Greek passport at the airport content intended flying to Honduras. Apparently, there is a terrorist, but someone seeking refuge," said Kronawetter ..
In the same vein, the Honduran government said Thursday that five Syrian prisoners an airport in the country when they tried to travel to the US with stolen passports Greeks have no ties to terrorist groups.
Paraguay has given shelter to a total of 23 Syrian citizens since the civil war began in Syria in 2011, while 40 other requests are unresolved, according to the National Commission for Refugees (CONARE).