MALAYSIA AIRLINES MH370 - ONE OF THE IMPOSTOR USING FAKE PASSPORT IS AN IRANIAN BELIEVED TO BE INTENDING TO MIGRATE TO GERMANY.

One suspect on missing Malaysia Airlines is Iranian, no terror link: Malaysia police chief

World | Reuters | Updated: March 11, 2014 13:10 IST

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Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar

Kuala Lumpur:  Malaysia's police chief said on Tuesday that one of the two men holding false passports who boarded the Malaysian airliner that vanished last week was an Iranian national.

The identity of the other man was being investigated, Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar told a news conference.

Thai police had suspected the two men travelling on stolen passports flight M370 that disappeared on Saturday were not involved in terrorism but instead evidence was suggesting they could have been asylum seekers.

Interpol confirmed on Sunday that at least two passengers on the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing used passports stolen in Thailand within the last two years leading to speculation that the plane had been attacked.

Thai police and foreign police investigators have been questioning two travel agents in the resort city of Pattaya, where the tickets were bought for the two men who boarded the flight using the stolen passports.

© Thomson Reuters 2014