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DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check
Alert on new Kosovo Passports
30 July 2008

The Republic of Kosovo has begun to issue passports to its nationals who have previously been using United Nations-issued travel documents, as well as passports from the former state of Yugoslavia and from Serbia. It is suggested that you go on the Internet (use Google Images, for example, where I easily found one) and print out a photo of the new passport information and portrait pages to distribute to your staff. Serbia has already announced that it will not accept these new passports. Yes, you should use Passport-Check to verify that they have not been altered.

Remember well, money launderers read the newspapers, too. They may be seeking to purchase and alter the new Kosovo passports, to use as proof of identity when opening accounts overseas, and thus hide their true names. Kosovar organised crime groups could possibly be selling them soon as a new source of income. Therefore, ask for other supplemental forms of identity with these new passports, and always use Passport-Check to rule out alteration of the data by laundrymen.

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