Listening to network trading ‘mine’ reveals bribing Moroccan customs officials

Investigation by the National Police Order Court No. 4 of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, It brings together not only conversations about the trade of minors migrant from the Canary Islands to the peninsula, which was the primary purpose of the proceedings, but also calls among network members. The ringleader residing in Crevillent- here they are talking about the payments they made to people working in Moroccan customs controls to smuggle goods.

Those surveyed even talk about the fact that it is better to enter the Moroccan border during a shift change and call different amounts of money a bribe. Therefore, it is stated that customs officers received bribes of 200 euros in one meeting, 45 and 700 euros in others, and even up to 1500 euros if the contraband is branded in one of them.

of researchers Unit Against Immigration Networks and Fraud Documents (UCRIF) Police officials, in their analysis of calls from intercepted phones, refer to the network as being related to some authorities in Algeciras and Moroccan border ports. According to the police, these contacts may be facilitating the bribe payments, which some of the investigators mentioned, thus facilitating the entry and exit of the goods.

In one of the house searches defended by the police, residing in Crevillent, who was the main suspect of the network a few weeks ago. lawyer Fernando Rocamorafrom his office Francisco Miguel Galiana Bottle,, One hundred pieces of clothing and shoe boxes valued by the police were tampered with. 270.000 €.

Police wiretaps also reveal fraudulent crimes in other employment contracts, Covid and registration certificates. One of these calls, which was interrupted on June 16, mentions the registration certificate of one of the two addressees, and one of them tells him that the price is 600 euros, but another puts it at 500. In the end he says: expensive and costs 400 euros in Crevillent. In subsequent interviews, one of these interlocutors continues to talk about the steps to enroll several people, and they refer to an appointment held at Crevillent to finally register for two or three years for 400 euros.

The falsification of employment contracts is also evident in the police wiretaps of the network that smuggles small immigrants to the Canary Islands by boat. Therefore, in one of the conversations, they refer to a third person working at an aluminum company. It sells employment contracts for 13,000 Euros. One of the interlocutors tells the other that a colleague wants to bring in a family member illegally and asks him to ask him for 14,000 euros to receive a thousand euros as a commission for the management.

In another call, they refer to the sale of an employment contract for 8,000 euros, but one of the addressees adds that in cities such as Zamora, Toledo or Santander they can be bought for 5,000 or 6,000 euros. Also, in another conversation, the selling price was set at 7,000 Euros.

Researchers have concluded that these facilitate the arrival of immigrants in Spain from Morocco. However, these fake contracts are also sometimes used to obtain fake unemployment benefits.