Interpol on Friday hit back at Malaysias claims that consulting a stolen passport database would have caused too many delays to be useful, after confusion caused by Kuala Lumpurs failure to detect two illegal migrants on the still missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. Interpol shot back saying Malaysias decision to not consult the database before allowing travellers to enter the country or board planes cannot be defended by falsely blaming technology or Interpol. If there is any responsibility or blame for this failure, it rests solely with Malaysias Immigration Department, the France-based organisation said. Interpol said that it takes just seconds to reveal whether a passport is listed, with recent tests providing results in 0.2 seconds. Had Malaysia consulted Interpols database, the fact that both passengers were using stolen passports would have been discovered almost instantaneously, it added.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:52:13 +0000
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