Immigration Officials Raised Concerns, but MICT Failed to Respond

Several months before being apprehended and released as part of an investigation into “genuine-fake passports,” it was the immigration authorities themselves who had informed the Minister of the Interior of the need to update the Passport Personalization System, implemented in 2003 and renewed in 2013, Le Nouvelliste learned from sources close to the matter.

“The Directorate of Immigration and Emigration (DIE) and the Directorate of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) present their complimen