Argentine and Panamanian officials are investigating an advertisement on the Internet offering passports from a wide range of countries for prices as high as $40,000. The ad offered the Argentina passport as one of the best money can buy and was placed on the Internet by Pri?vacy Tools Inc, a firm giving a postal address in Panama City and an Internet address on the World Wide Web Panama’s ambassador, Jaime Ingram Hirsch, said he expec?ted his country to try to stop Privacy Tools, which he identified as a US firm with headquarters in Sacramento, California. An Interpol spokesman told Reuters the claim that all of the passports the firm was hawking have been presented as legally-issued and fully-registered in the immigration computers of the country issuing the document, was groundless. The prices published by Privacy Tools range from $2,600 for a Chadian passport, for banking purposes only, not recommended for travel, to $40,000 a Brazilian one.
