Pattaya Police visited two local travel agencies this week to investigate the purchase of tickets that were used by two passengers on The Malaysia Airlines airline flight MH 370 carrying 239 passengers and crew which disappeared during a trip from Kuala Lumpur Malaysia To Beijing, China.
Malaysian authorities were concerned as they had found out that the two passengers were travelling on lost or stolen passports belonging to Mr. Luigi Maraldi an Italian national and Mr. Christian Kozel an Austrian National. As the authorities are concerned that terrorism may have led to the plane dropping of the face of the Earth.
Pattaya Police Colonel Supachai led the investigations and it can now be revealed that the tickets were bought by an Iranian middle man Mr. Hashem Saheb Gharani Golestani aged 51, an Iranian citizen who has been running a Picture Frame Business business in Pattaya for the last 7 years. He dropped off 51,000 Baht to purchase the tickets at the Grand Horizons Travel Company located in Central Festival Pattaya Beach and Six Stars Travel located in Pratamnak.
The tickets had been ordered by Mr. Alireza Kolmohammadi aged 39 from Iran on 1st March. He had previously travelled to Thailand on 11th June 2012 and stayed at The Royal Residence Garden Hotel in Soi Teppraset South Pattaya before he returned to Iran on 1st January 2013 he is yet to be interviewed to find out what his role was in this passport ticket scam.
No physical tickets were issued at the travel agencies. They were printed out as an e-ticket by the two Iranian men who used these tickets and false passports to board the ill fated MH 370 flight to head for destinations in Frankfurt and Copenhagen via Bejing.
