The National Police has completed an operation that has resulted in the arrest of 14 people, including an official from Pinoso and another public employee from Algueña, both municipalities in the province of Alicante, accused of alleged crimes of falsification of documents to obtain registration certificates, residence permits and social assistance.
The police operation began after the agents of the Unit Against Immigration and Document Falsehood Networks of the Alicante Provincial Police Station learned that an "unusual" number were being registered in several homes in the towns of Pinoso and La Algueña. of people, as reported by the National Police in a statement.
The agents carried out various checks and observed that these people had allegedly obtained registration by presenting various documentation to the Town Councils of Pinoso and La Algueña in which they indicated that they resided in an address where they did not actually reside, without the authorization of the legitimate owner of the home.
Subsequently, once they had obtained registration, these people supposedly requested the health card from the Valencian Health Service. In other cases, they also allegedly used this falsified or fraudulently obtained documentation to process the residence permit in Spain for family reunification and completed the procedures by requesting various social aid.
During the investigation, the agents verified that the main ringleader of the plot supposedly provided false rental contracts to these people with which they could obtain registrations in the registration records. In exchange, he received amounts of money that ranged between 200 and 1,500 euros.
This link in the criminal plot orchestrated by the main ringleader, still unstopped, was where two public officials supposedly came into play. According to the agents, a public official from the municipality of Pinoso allegedly carried out the registrations, and another official from the municipality of La Algueña supposedly made false reports so that those interested could obtain residence permits for family reunification.
Both officials were arrested for the alleged commission of the crimes of document falsification and favoring illegal immigration, in addition to being heard in statements by two other officials from the municipalities of Pinoso and La Algueña as being investigated, but who were ultimately not arrested. .
The other twelve people arrested have been accused of using falsified documentation to obtain registration and subsequently obtain a residence permit, health card or access social assistance. Due to these facts, they are accused of the alleged commission of a crime of document falsification.
The main ringleaders of the plot have not yet been arrested by the agents, since they have been on the run in Morocco since last July. Currently, the investigation remains open and there are more than twenty people who are being investigated for their alleged participation in the criminal acts.
