SEPANG: A reference to Italian footballer Mario Balotelli was only for comparison's sake, the Transport Ministry said, over the identity of stolen passport holders boarding missing flight MH370.
A ministerial statement clarified that Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abd Rahman used Balotelli to show that a person's nationality were not determined by their looks.
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