Stamps recycling network busted; Recycled stamps worth 53,000 KD

Immigration police nabbed three people and search is ongoing for two other suspects in a major government stamps forgery operation which was busted on Thursday. According to Kuwait Times daily, police received information about illegal activities in which the suspects collected used stamps taken out from transactions at government services offices and then resold them at cheap prices. Detectives identified an Asian man who had access to the archive section of a state department as a prime suspect, and issued a warrant to enter his apartment. The man was arrested after a large number of recycled stamps were found in his place, and he soon provided the identity of his four accomplices. Police arrested two other suspects while two others were not found at their residence. The value of recycled stamps found in the three suspects’ apartments was estimated at KD 53,000, daily added.