This is an update on the story that is now all over the news that we reported here a few days ago.
Seems the Chinese man who used an elaborate mask of an old man to board a plan in Hong Kong was helped by at least one American.
From CTV Winnipeg:
A young Chinese refugee claimant who disguised himself as an elderly white male to board a flight to Canada used a legitimate U.S. passport and other identification, CTV News has learned.
Sources close to the investigation say the man received the passport and other documents, including a boarding pass, from an elderly white American who passed through security.
The refugee claimant then flushed the documents down the airplane toilet during the flight, CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Monday night. [We’ve heard of this standard asylum-seeker procedure of flushing documents down the toilet in flight—ed]
Police in Hong Kong believe the young man had at least two accomplices, including the American.
“Officials say that this isn’t your usual human smuggling operation run by organized crime. They suspect that he might be a Chinese dissident,” Fife said.
The incident has revealed that Canada has a security leak.
Richard Kurland, a Vancouver immigration lawyer who is not involved in the case, told The Canadian Press that the media leak was a serious breach of security.
“A refugee claim happens many times a day in Canada, but an intelligence bulletin that’s current, that finds its way to CNN? It’s astonishing,” Kurland said.
“It’s a potential hole in the intelligence fence.
Read it all.