False Passports on Flight MH370 Highlights Failure to Use Interpol's Resources
Interpol maintains a global database of stolen passports to prevent just such occurrences – the Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database. It currently contains more than 40 million records. But, said Interpol's secretary general Ronald Noble yesterday, "it remains of serious concern to Interpol that approximately four out of every 10 international passengers are not being screened against our SLTD database, and this should be a worry for us all."