A Bangladeshi man has been arrested in Riyadh on charges of forging diplomatic documents, the Arabic daily Al-Riyadh reported on Wednesday. Police had tracked him down to a photographic studio in Addera district in downtown Riyadh. In the ensuing raid, police found military uniforms, 15 bogus diplomatic residency documents, as well as blank documents that carried forgeries of the stamps used by district mayors – all the forger had to do was add names to them. Investigators had launched the search after more and more illegals had been caught with forged diplomatic residency permits and passports. Investigators eventually got a lead on the forger and arrested him with an accomplice in the studio, where they found forgeries of the official paperwork of a number of African countries, driver's licenses, residency papers (iqamas), Saudi family identity cards, clones of district stamps, and police and passport department papers with forged stamps. The two men themselves had been living in the Kingdom for years with forged iqamas. Police investigators are checking for links the forgers might have had with other similar cases in the Saudi capital. __
