The High Court has ordered the extradition to Britain of a Dublin man in connection with passport offences.
The alleged fraud involves using the names of children who had died in their infancy and never had a passport.
Michael Fallon (50) is wanted by the London Metropolitan police. Mr Fallon, otherwise Micheál Ó Fallúin, Carysfort Hall, Blackrock, Co Dublin, is to face a charge of conspiracy to defraud the UK passport agency by providing false passport applications in the late 90s.
In a reserved judgment yesterday, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan told Mr Fallon she was making the order for his surrender to the British authorities.
He is to be held at Cloverhill Prison for the next 15 days before his extradition can take place.
In an earlier ruling, the judge had found that the extradition warrants issued by the British police were valid and rejected an application for Mr Fallon's release.
Yesterday, Ms Justice Finlay Geoghegan rejected his application to prevent his extradition on grounds relating to whether the offence for which he was sought corresponded with an offence under Irish law.
The court had previously been told, in a warrant issued by a Bow Street magistrate in London, that British police believed Fallon and alleged co-conspirators advertised passports for sale in the International Herald Tribune.
The police claimed that once a customer made contact, they were offered a choice of suitable names and dates of birth from a list.
It was alleged the customer then provided a passport photograph and signed a blank passport application form which were attached to a duplicate birth certificate of a child who had died in infancy and who never had a passport.