The National Police has arrested the leader of a network that was dedicated to registering foreigners and arranging fraudulent marriages in Girona.
According to the National Police in a statement, the suspect was known as the boss because he had numerous contacts and offered a variety of services aimed at regularizing the situation of immigrants through false operations.
In the city it had more than ten addresses where it registered foreigners in an irregular situation who had arrived from Africa. The arrested person received between 500 and 800 euros for each registration service and charged at least 5,000 euros for arranging a marriage with the aim of obtaining rights as a citizen of the European Union.
The National Police reports that the suspect was in charge of registering illegal immigrants in a network of more than ten homes in the city of Girona.
Their ‘modus operandi’ consisted of recruiting people at the city bus station (especially Moroccans and Algerians) and, later, going to different civic centers of the Girona City Council. Thus, he avoided being recognized because he did not always do the same thing.
The addresses to register foreigners by falsifying rental contracts were obtained by taking advantage of neighbors with economic problems, who accepted a “small” percentage of the benefits and agreed to facilitate registration in the registry.
For the registration service, he charged between 500 and 800 euros. The figure was higher than 5,000 in the case of arranging fraudulent marriages, which consisted of putting a foreigner in contact with a person originally from the country so that they could get married and, thus, the immigrant could access the rights as a citizen of the Union. European.
The investigation, which has had the collaboration of the Girona Municipal Police, remains open and is in the second phase of exploitation, now focused on the section of fraudulent marriages. Further arrests are not ruled out.
