They worked in the back room of a beauty salon and charged vulnerable foreigners between 2,500 and 5,000 euros. There are another 36 arrested throughout the country
The National Police he has disjointed in Marbella the dome of a framework allegedly dedicated to making false hiring of people in an irregular situation that meet the requirements of the Legislation of foreigner and so get residence and work permits with which to access the entire Schengen Area.
According to the National Police, those under investigation used a fictitious company to achieve its objective and the sum operation six arrested in the city of Malagawhere the ringleaders operated in a hidden agency in the back of a beauty salon. There they offered residence and work permits to irregular immigrants settled in different parts of the country. The rest of those arrested are distributed by Algeciras, Barcelona, Gijon, Almeria, Madrid, Albacete and Granadawho were subsequently asked to revoke the fraudulently obtained residence permits.
The investigation began after detecting in Algeciras various properties in which foreigners were registered and to whom the owners of these dwellings stated that they had not leased the same, justifying the registrations in the Census Office of the city of Cadiz through simulated leaseswhich were submitted electronically to the electronic headquarters of the Algeciras City Council.
The study of the files of the foreigners registered in those flats made it possible to verify that the applicants lacked any type of roots in the city. All came from homes on the Costa del Sol and Almería and they used the same modus operandi in the procedure to justify livelihoods: a fictitious company and the same person who represented them before the Aliens Office. The efforts revealed that they contracted the services to a manager from Marbella who charged between 2,500 and 5,000 euros for the possibility of regularizing their situation in Spain. “The foreigners agreed due to their vulnerable situation and for ignoring the laws on foreigners”, explained the police before adding that the victims They even sold their few assets or indebted their relatives in their country of origin in order to pay the debt.. The manager also offered these people the possibility of covering the expenses of obtaining the residence permit with the subsequent collection of unemployment benefits, since many subsequently requested different benefits from the State Public Employment Service.
The framework offered Simulated registrations in companies in Marbella along with fictitious registrations in Algeciras so that the residence permits were requested in the province of Cadiz and not in that of Malagawhere the head of the framework was already known by the institutions where these procedures are processed. “It offered several modalities for immigrants to regularize their situation depending on which requirements of those included in the Immigration Law they met and the fundamental axis was registration in a simulated retail company controlled by this manager”, they have abounded. In some cases, in addition to the fictitious registration, they put them in contact with nationals to constitute marriages of convenience. In other cases, to demonstrate the length of stay in Spain, they simulated registration certificates of CataloniaBalearic Islands, Basque Country or Valenciawhere, as there was co-officiality of languages, these certificates were issued in an unknown language by the officials of the Foreigners’ Offices, thus making their verification difficult.
To make the police investigation work more difficult, the investigators assure that they masked all the requests through the different electronic offices with the collaboration of two lawyers registered in the Illustrious Bar Association of Madrida circumstance that helped them not to raise suspicions before the Aliens Office.