Malaysian authorities have revealed
that one of the two men who used stolen passports to board the missing
Malaysian Airlines plane looked like Mario Balotelli.
As it emerged an Iranian businessman
known only as Mr Ali was understood to have booked the tickets for the two
passengers using the stolen passports, the men who boarded the plane were said
to have not been of ‘Asian appearance’.
Malaysia’s police chief was quoted
by local media as saying that one of the men had been identified.
Civil aviation chief Azharuddin
Abdul Rahman declined to confirm this, but said authorities were looking at the
possibility the men were connected to a stolen passport syndicate. Continue…
The travel agent in the resort of
Pattaya said an Iranian business contact she knew only as ‘Mr Ali’ had asked
her to book tickets for the two men on March 1.Asked by a reporter what they
looked like ‘roughly’, he said: ‘Do you know of a footballer by the name of
(Mario) Balotelli? He is an Italian. Do you know how he looks like?’
A reporter then asked, ‘Is he
black?’ and the aviation chief replied, ‘Yes’.
A Thai travel agent who arranged the
tickets for the two passengers has now said she had booked them on the flight
via Beijing because they were the cheapest tickets, it has been reported.
She had initially booked them on other airlines but those reservations expired
and on March 6, Mr Ali had asked her to book them again.
She told the Financial Times she did
not think Mr Ali, who paid her in cash and booked tickets with her regularly,
was linked to terrorism.
The massive search is mainly in a
50-nautical mile radius from where the last contact with the plane was made,
midway between Malaysia’s east coast and the southern tip of Vietnam.
A U.S. led search is also taking
place hundreds of miles away on the other side of the Malaysian peninsula.
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