No 670
Monday 5th - Sunday 11th June, 2017
Tel: 637 227 385
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A R R E S T S I N TO R R EV I E JA F O R P R O M O T I N G I L L E G A L I M M I G R AT I O N
The National Police have arrested 130 people in Torrevieja, including three council officials, accused of promoting illegal immigration through a network of real estate agents, who provided false rental contracts to foreigners enabling them to register in the municipality in order to then bring in their families. The arrests included the 3 municipal officials as well as the owners of 16 estate agencies, 14 sales agents and almost a hundred foreign nationals. All of them have
been accused of crimes of documentary misrepresentation to enable illegal immigration. The operation began two years ago when the investigators first became aware of problem, at the time they were mostly of Moroccan origin and resident in Murcia. The agents identified several people who seemed to be in charge of the network, and found that they were issuing contracts which were then used to register foreign citizens at la Oficina de ExtranjerĂa in Alicante. It is understood that the applicants provided counterfeit contracts for housing rentals in the municipality of Torrevieja, which allowed them to then fraudulently register as a resident. Continued on Page 2