55 people were arrested by the Judiciary Police in Greater Lisbon in an illegal immigration operation. The visits will be part of a network that ‘arranged’ convenience marriages among poor and foreign women, in exchange for Portuguese nationality.
PJ detained, this Wednesday, 55 suspected of belonging to a network to aid to illegal immigration using weddings.
According to the “arrangements” were doing with poor women who married immigrants, in exchange for money, to obtain Portuguese nationality.
In a statement to PJ details that the plan to “promote the fraudulent regularization of foreign citizens” was implemented through social networks and would initially explain to interested parties in combined meetings in Portugal ”that“ the easiest way to regularize and obtain residence permission would be with the residence Opening of a company“.
But this plan has become more complex. Therefore, the nominations became so that they could get a marriage of convenience with Portuguese citizens, upon payment of high amounts.
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According to PJ, the suspects started to Guide convenience weddings With Portuguese citizens, “there is no relationship between nubents”.
The links would be performed through the Payment of high amounts.
The suspects are indicted for illegal immigration aid crimes, illegal immigration assistance and computer falsehood assistance and will be presented, within this process, to the Public Prosecution Service.
In total, they participated in the operation Digital alliance About 300 Elements of the PJ, which complied with 57 search warrants.
The investigation is in charge of the National Cybercrime and Technological Crime (UNC3T) unit of PJ, in an inquiry directed by the Lisbon Department of Criminal Investigation and Criminal Action (DIAP).
