Van highjacked in UK with 3000 blank passports
Chris in Paris
No, it’s doesn’t sound very suspicious at all, does it?
The Foreign Office today admitted a serious breach of security took place after blank passports destined for British embassies were stolen.
A spokeswoman said 24 parcels containing blank passports and vignettes - the blank stickers for visa stamps - were taken from a van en-route from a factory in Oldham to RAF Northolt near London.
It was reported 3,000 documents were stolen, but the spokeswoman was unable to confirm this number.
She said the incident was being investigated by Greater Manchester Police, adding the Home Office and Identity and Passport Service (IPS) had taken “preventative action” to guard against forgeries.
The Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “The van was hijacked en route from the production site.”
