Customs officials yesterday told a court of intercepting mail containing passports, photographs and personal details of a person.
Police later traced the mail to two men accused of large-scale passport forgery.
Fahad Jaber Ajeil, 29, and Riyad Hamied Sultan, 30, are accused of possessing implements for forgery, forging documents, possessing a false
passport, altering documents, making documents by reproduction and conspiracy to commit forgery.
The men have an Arabic interpreter for their trial, which began in the Auckland District Court on Monday and is expected to last a month.
Both accused told police they were born in Kuwait.
Customs officers Mesui Ahovelo and Francois Gunter yesterday told the jury of intercepting two pieces of mail.
Mr Ahovelo said the first package contained two photographs, a Columbian passport and details about a woman named Yasmin Ali Mohammed.
In the parcel intercepted by Mr Gunter were two Australian passports, one with the corner cut off, indicating a cancelled document.
The other contained border control stamps indicating it was in use.
The Crown alleges Ajeil and Sultan made or were making hundreds of passports and other documents.
Police allegedly found false passports relating to 17 countries.
