Eleven people from an organization that allowed the entry of illegal immigration arrested

The National Police of Navarra has arrested eleven people as alleged perpetrators of a crime of favoring illegal immigration, document forgery and belonging to a criminal organization.

The investigation began when verifying the high number of residence and work requests related to the same company. The requests were filed in different provinces in order to make it difficult for the plot to be discovered, as reported by the National Police..

A businessman allegedly delivered pre-contracts and contracts in exchange for large amounts of money to be able to start the procedures to regularize the administrative situation of people of Moroccan nationality. With this operation, the National Police has dismantled this criminal network.

The police operation, called 'Charco', has been carried out by agents of the Provincial Immigration and Border Brigade of the Superior Police Headquarters of Navarra, directed by the Investigating Court number 5 of Pamplona.

The investigators verified the existence of multiple applications for work permits and other documents related to a common link, a company whose business administrator denied any type of link with the contracts that initiated the procedures, giving the police various ambiguous reasons for Why did your company go out as a contractor for those foreigners?.

Despite this, the investigators continued to obtain evidence and clues that could shed light on the multiple false contracts that appeared in the petitions collected at the immigration offices..

After some time of investigation, it was possible to verify how said businessman had allegedly created a network that had several companies to cover his criminal activity, using Moroccan citizens within the organization to contact people in an irregular administrative situation, offering them to solve this problem. problem, as explained by the National Police.

To do this, the organization requested amounts of between 10,000 and 12,000 euros, being usual the request for an advance of between 2,000 and 5,000 euros in the act of delivery of the first pre-contract of work. With these fraudulent contracts, the foreigners went to specialized lawyers, without ties to the network, to initiate the pertinent procedures.

In the event that with this first pre-contract the residence and work application was not positively achieved, a second contract was given to him, to be presented in a different province to avoid suspicions on the part of the officials of the immigration offices.