Tuesday 11 March 2014
...Officials in Malaysia (click here) held up photographs of the two men at a press conference this morning, and said one was a 19-year-old Iranian who was believed to be trying to seek asylum in Germany at the time he boarded the now-missing jet.
Interpol secretary general Ronald K Noble later named him as Pouri Nourmohammadi, and identified the other man as Delavar Seyedmohammaderza, 29 years old and also Iranian.
Mr Noble said the men, both Iranian passport holders, had swapped them in Kuala Lumpur for the stolen Italian and Austrian documents....
...Officials in Malaysia (click here) held up photographs of the two men at a press conference this morning, and said one was a 19-year-old Iranian who was believed to be trying to seek asylum in Germany at the time he boarded the now-missing jet.
Interpol secretary general Ronald K Noble later named him as Pouri Nourmohammadi, and identified the other man as Delavar Seyedmohammaderza, 29 years old and also Iranian.
Mr Noble said the men, both Iranian passport holders, had swapped them in Kuala Lumpur for the stolen Italian and Austrian documents....