Posted on 03/17/2014 5:02:42 PM PDT by blueplum
BEIJING -- Stolen passports carried by two Iranian men to board missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 were used last year by two people applying for visas to work as entertainers in China, according to the head of an entertainment company.
Xie Zhuoling, the head of a firm that recruits foreign performers for nightclubs and hotels, said that employment contracts had been signed in June for Christian Kozel, an Austrian, and Luigi Maraldi, an Italian, to work as dancers in Ningxia, northern China.
:snip: When investigators announced last week they were looking into two passengers of the missing plane with stolen passports from Austria and Italy, it jogged Xie’s memory. He pulled the contracts from his files and indeed, the names were the same: Christian Kozel and Luigi Maraldi.
"I was very scared. I went to the police," said Xie, on a telephone interview from the public security bureau office in Yingchuan.
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I didn’t know there was a gigolo career path in China.
My guess is the syndicate pays the last user a heavy fee if returned after use.
I think you’re right. The person who arranged the Malaysia flight (a “Mr. Ali”) was apparently a fairly well-known people-smuggler.
His day job?
That’s the ticket!
But it seems to me, if both passports were reported stolen, and duly listed with Interpol, and then both passports were subsequently used (basically within the same year) to apply for visas for two individuals traveling together to China (which visa clearance process had to link to Intelligence on some scale), why didn’t the stolen passport names send off bells at Interpol? If the names weren’t on a no-fly/cancelled passport list after they were stolen, why didn’t they end up on such a list after the China visa application? On the surface, this information of the same two individuals (passports?) traveling together from Kalua to the same destination a year prior, and the current situation with the missing Malaysian flight seems to point to the completion of something originally planned for June 2013. The hiring manager in China mentioned the existence of a third man, a “manager” who was unnamed, but also was to travel with the other two. Hopefully this new information will open the base of leads to pursue.
Could someone, even a ground crew member with software knowledge, have uploaded a modified software package from within the cockpit, thereby changing it's planned route.. and even before the pilots arrived for takeoff?
I get a slight sent of 'Iranians' on this one now.. I recall they wirelessly commandeered our drone away from us and flew it into THEIR territory. I also recall 0bama did nothing about it.
Smells like someone on the inside of the no fly list has/had a side business.
Thou shalt not steal or covet thy neighbor’s passport.
The latest theory I'd heard (on the radio today) was that the software was uploaded in the passenger area, via iPhone into the entertainment console in the back of the facing seat.
Inside contact well placed for a percentage.
As I understand it, a country has to access the Interpol site for information. It isn’t automatically a red flagged if a country doesn’t search Interpol for the info.
> were used last year by two people applying for visas to work as entertainers in China
Thanks blueplum.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2436271/posts?page=164
You would need to be able to hack the flight control software and pass a few seemingly impenetrable barriers with pass codes, but maybe there's a super hacker aboard. Can you imagine flying the plane from the passenger seat? Unbelievable but who knows..
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