As of 2005, there were an estimated 20 million lost or stolen passports circulating the world.

These passports are at risk of being doctored and used as counterfeit identification.

Source: Moises Naim, Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are hijacking the global economy, (New York: Doubleday, 2005), pg. 101.

As of 2005, there were an estimated 20 million lost or stolen passports circulating the world.

These passports are at risk of being doctored and used as counterfeit identification.

Source: Moises Naim, Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are hijacking the global economy, (New York: Doubleday, 2005), pg. 101.