Spanish Police Bust Fake Document Ring for Moroccan Entrepreneurs

The network received the files of 15 people from four families to establish false documents (residence and work permits) for them, allowing them to access health and education services or conduct commercial activities in Spain. The Andalusian police opened an investigation into this network after being alerted by immigration and border agents in Granada that a Moroccan businessman had presented false residence and work permits, according to EFE.

According to these documents, he would be the owner of a shoe store located in the city center. The documents were falsified by a lawyer in Granada who, acting on behalf of the Moroccan, had gone to the Spanish consulate in Nador to request certain documents from the businessman as well as those of his wife and children. According to the investigators, the Moroccan had rented these premises through a real estate company and paid the rent by semesters.

The investigators also discovered that this law firm was accustomed to these practices and received amounts between 20,000 and 40,000 euros from Moroccans to make them pass as businessmen in Spain. In addition to the lawyer who was arrested, the manager of a real estate company, as well as a Spanish woman of Moroccan origin who accompanied the lawyer to Nador and Tangier to serve as an interpreter, were also arrested.