Police in China arrest twin sisters who used each other’s passports more than 30 times to travel the world

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Police told the women it was illegal to 'take advantage of your DNA' to travel.

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The two sisters left China to visit Japan, Russia, Thailand and ‘other countries’. Photo: Getty Images According to Wang Xiaodong, a local police officer from the immigration management department, Zhou Mouhong had been trying to reunite with her husband because he had returned to Japan. Currently, the police are investigating the women for the crime of “disrupting the administration of the territory or border”., a lawyer said that, because the two sisters sneaked across the border with other people’s passports more than three times, they could be sentenced to less than a year in prison or fined.Many people online were surprised with how often their “trick” worked and wondered how the police even figured the scam out.

 

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