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Five people have been arrested in Navarre on suspicion of being part of a network to manipulate residence permits

The alleged criminal organization disbanded by the Civil Guard manipulated the process of obtaining residence and work permits in exchange for money, accusing them of belonging to a criminal group, against the public administration and inciting irregular immigration.

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The Single Aliens Office of Navarre. Photo: Government of Spain.

The Civil Guard has disbanded a criminal organization in Navarre accused of falsifying residence and work permits for foreigners in exchange for money.

Five persons have been arrested in the operation on charges of belonging to a criminal group, being perpetrators of crimes against the public administration and inciting irregular immigration, according to the Civil Guard in a press release.

The investigation was launched a year ago, when it was discovered that there was a network that mainly attracted foreign citizens of Maghreb and Asian origin who were in a precarious administrative situation,  regularizing their situation in exchange for money.

The defendants facilitated the fraudulent processing of the files by circumventing the legally established administrative procedure and keeping secret that they did not comply with their requests. 

The investigators managed to document the meetings of those involved in bars, cars or places of worship, allowing four searches to be carried out in homes in the Navarre towns of Tiebas and Pamplona, and a fifth in the Single Aliens Office of Navarre, the work centre of one of the detainees , where computer equipment and various documentation of interest to the investigation were seized.

After being brought before the court, he has ordered four of the five persons involved to be placed in pre-trial detention, allowing two of them to evade prison on bail of 5,000 euros, while the fifth suspect has been provisionally released with precautionary measures.

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