Moroccan Man Arrested in Spain for Bigamy After Family Reunification Request

Since polygamy is punishable by Spanish law, the 49-year-old man was the subject of a judicial investigation, for the crime of bigamy, according to a statement from the Spanish security service relayed by the ABC channel.

Arrived in 2010 in Spain, the man had managed to obtain the residence permit in 2014, thanks to his marriage to a Spanish woman whose divorce was pronounced two years later. But, adds the media, the documents of his marriage to a Moroccan woman and his child, presented to the authorities on his arrival, confirm that he was married in Morocco between 2010-2016.

The preliminary investigation also revealed that the Moroccan, who resided in Granada, did not cohabit with his Spanish wife, whose domicile was in Cordoba, thus supporting the hypothesis that it was a marriage of convenience that had allowed him to regularize his situation in Spain in exchange for money.