Or the Police in April last year in the port of Barcelona because 69 Bolivians were traveling in it with false visas has been closed with five arrests. The Bolivian authorities have arrested those responsible for the travel agencies that fraudulent documents supposedly sold. Most have been accused of crimes of documentary falsehood, according to police sources, and are already free in their country of origin. They are also considered responsible for all the necessary logistics for travel management, such as plane and boat tickets, hotels and insurance reserves, among other procedures, the police explained through a press release.
The episode was a huge diplomatic stir, because he forced the company MSC Cruises to stop its journey, which had begun on March 17, from Brazil. With 1,500 people on board, the ship Harmony He had to continue to Italy, but the authorities forced their immobilization due to irregularities. As happened in the port of Barcelona, where there is no room for people in transit – as it happens at the airport – the company was forced to look for a solution. Inside another ship, while the administrative jaleo was solved, and the rest of the passage that wanted it continued in the Harmony to Italy.
The National Police took care at that time of the investigation, and compiled numerous information about the passages that had bought the affected people, who claimed to ignore that they contained false visas. Some of them assured this newspaper that he had paid up to 1,000 euros only for the visas. With this data, an investigation was opened in Bolivia, which has ended with the arrest of the alleged five involved.
Of the 69 affected – 55 of legal age and 14 minors – six asked asylum, but four people could stay in Spain. The Police allowed for humanitarian reasons to the four members of the same family to remain in Spain: three minors and one of legal age. All of them were transferred to the province of Girona, where their relatives lived, including people of Spanish nationality.
The investigation has ruled out that MSC company workers were involved in the attempt to favor illegal immigration, giving a blind eye to the false visas. “At most, they can attribute a lack of thorough control,” said police sources. The company was also responsible for suffering both the stay of the people on the ship while their situation was solved, for more than a week, as well as the flight.
