Criminal organisation that provided false documentation to foreigners disbanded

Officers from the Guardia Civil and the National Police have dismantled a criminal organisation based on the island of Gran Canaria dedicated to providing false documentation to migrants in an irregular situation to travel from the Canary Islands to the peninsula or other states of the European Union.

Those now detained falsified official documents issued by public organisations and in exchange for an economic amount they delivered them to the migrants to achieve their exit from the archipelago. Sometimes they even went so far as to organise the trips and provide accommodation for these people while they prepared the documentation, going so far as to organise more than 60 departures from Gran Canaria.

Three people have been arrested in the city of Las Palmas, who are charged, among others, with the crimes of belonging to a criminal organisation, against the rights of foreign citizens and forgery of documents.

The organisation recruited migrants of sub-Saharan origin, among whom were numerous minors, thanks to the contacts that one of the detainees had in the centres for minors on the island of Gran Canaria. Subsequently, they were detained in a place prior to the trip, while they prepared the false documentation and all the necessary infrastructure for their departure.

Also, during the investigation, numerous people have been arrested at different Spanish airports after trying to travel with false documents. Such as the case of a minor under eleven years of age, a native of the Ivory Coast, whose disappearance had been reported by a centre for minors on the island of Fuerteventura and who was intercepted at the Gran Canaria airport, moments before boarding a flight to Barcelona.

In the operation, an address has been searched in which the agents have intervened numerous falsified documents, material to undertake this crime, passports belonging to third parties, money and electronic devices, among other effects.

The detainees were brought before the courts, ordering the immediate imprisonment of two of them.

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