Seven persons, including a lawyer, have been arrested as members of a criminal network that was providing false IDs and other documents, including fake proof of residence, to illegal immigrants in Spain. The arrests took place across four central and south-eastern Spanish provinces.
An investigation was triggered when the local administration of the province of Cuenca notified the police that it had detected irregularities in some of the applications for residency that, together with work permits, had been submitted.
Law enforcement confirmed the permits were not authentic and tracked down the applications, thus exposing the source of these false documents. Thereafter, the scope of the network was discovered and unravelled.
Among the charges brought against those arrested are fraud and violation of the rights of foreign persons.
