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Illegal immigrant network uncovered

• 15 Nov 2007 •

NATIONAL POLICE and Guardia Civil UCRIF (Unit Against Immigration Networks and Falsification of Documents) officers carrying out an investigation code-named ‘Operation Cerco’ have uncovered an organised criminal network dedicated to bringing illegal immigrants into Spain. According to sources, 13 people from Torrox to Estepona have been arrested within the last week.

Allegedly, some of the arrested held administrative posts in several societies being investigated by Police and Guardia Civil forces, while others were immigrants who were victims as well as accomplices of the network. According to sources, the immigrants would have paid to enter Spain illegally.

‘Operation Cerco’ began as a result of documentation, discovered in January, when another 12 people were arrested for their involvement in a network which had brought more than 600 immigrants into Spain illegally. Most of these people were from Morocco and the organisation supposedly sometimes charged them up to three million euros to enter the country.

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