Registered, Work contracts either fictitious civil unions. The National Police has dismantled an international criminal organization that offered all kinds of services to facilitate the Illicit regularization of Algerian migrants They arrived in Spain in Pateras. The complete “pack” had a price of more than 10,000 euros. However, the “clients” of the network were housed in a zulo of nine square meters where they lived in subhuman conditions.
The basis of this framework was in the province of Zaragoza although there has also been an arrest in Huesca and another in San Sebastián. The “Operation Atlax” has allowed the arrest of about thirty people who pThey resent registered, work contracts or fraudulent training courses with those who requested temporary residence permits due to exceptional circumstances.
Among its services were also residence permits of community family members through fictional civil unions. The migrants arrived in Spain in Patera from Algeria and were housed in a zulo located in the city of Zaragoza in which they lived in subhuman conditions. The framework facilitated a “Pack” of complete regularization that had a cost that ranged from the 10,000 and 15,000 euros.
The National Police agents began the investigation of this plot after detecting that there had been an “unusual increase in requests for temporary residence authorizations due to exceptional circumstances” of Algerian citizens. In the same way they knew that different false documents had been submitted for this.
Thus, the criminal organization had perfectly coordinated members in different hierarchy steps. They were specialized in the collection of Nationals of Algeria. The leaders of the same were in the province of Zaragoza but they had Ramifications nationwide in other provinces such as Alicante, Murcia, Huesca and Guipúzcoa.
They also had a wide network of collaborators and intermediaries whose work was to facilitate the realization of fraudulent registered in homes and formalize false work contracts in companies. The objective was that their “clients” managed to meet the requirements required for the presentation of temporary residence authorizations due to exceptional circumstances in their different variants.
His benefit portfolio did not remain there. And they had collaborators in France who also captured people to fix their administrative situation in Spain. They were facilitated by possibility of managing the application for Spanish residence permits No need to move from the French territory, by sending photocopies of their passports, distance registration, opening of medical bank accounts and justifying, among others.
The prices of your services
The “professionalization” of these criminals was such that it set prices for their services. The amounts varied between the 600 and 900 euros for regulatingbetween 3,000 and 10,000 euros for a fraudulent contract, between 2,000 and 6,000 euros for a fictional civil union or 200 euros for the transport of documentation.
One of the main characteristics that the National Police has detected is that for the elaboration of fraudulent registration they used The “look-alike” method. This technique consists in getting individuals who physically resembled people to register.
A “direct link” with the pateras
Another of the “legs” of this criminal organization is that it had direct binding links with the arrival of pateras to the Spanish coast from Algeria, being a direct source of “Customers-migrants”to which a “pack” of complete regularization was facilitated.
The migrants were full knowledgeable that upon arrival the procedures for their regularization would begin, which is why they facilitated their original Passports of Algeria so that the criminal framework, through their collaborators, made the transfer of those passports to national territory.
Once in Spain, immigrants were housed in subhuman conditions in A zulo of just nine square meters enabled within one of the premises managed by the criminal organization in the city of Zaragoza, and in which they lived waiting for the beginning of the procedures of their regularization.
The investigations have made six of the detainees have entered provisional prison. Among them, the leaders of the criminal organization. Seven entrances and records have been carried out in the province of Zaragoza, where various false documentation and several Algerian passports were seized.