Hmmm...Any chance this was an Ex QR. german F/O...Who kept telling everybody he is a CPT(frustrated of not being upgraded with Qr)...simply because he got enough money to pay his upgrade in his home country(sim...)while he was with QR,and put it on his JAR licence,But never flow as CPT in any company....
And was seen wearing 4 stripes by some colleagues while he was flying in his home country as a F/O at the Gas station while refuelling his car...
After he left QR in 2006(still F/O),he was seen alone in Shanghai arrival terminal airport(in Cpt uniform..again
!),probably waiting for QR incoming crew...
, pretending he was flying A-340 as CPT for a" private company "in China....??
Well maybe...
(with his ID card carefully hidden under his jacket...!).