this Alicante National Police revealed an organized plot dedicated to its presentation. fake ukrainian residence permits in order to regulate their situation in Spain as refugees. In the operation, 14 people who used false documents while applying for temporary protection as refugees at the Documentation Office opened in the City of Light due to the war in Ukraine were arrested. Detainees aged 18-34 and nationals Morocco, Cuba and DominicaThey were accused of falsifying the document. The permission supports were real, but the data was not realistic.
Group III Unit Against Immigrant Networks and False Documents The Alicante Provincial Police Station (UCRIF) is keeping investigations open to find more forged documents and arrest petitioners in applications filed in Ciudad de la Luz.
The new path opened by the armed conflict Ukraine Providing temporary protection to refugees from Ukraine has not gone unnoticed by organized crime. Council European Union Issued Decision 2022/238 activating the temporary protection regime for citizens displaced from Ukraine. According to this rule, nationals of a third country other than Ukraine, who can prove legally residing in the country of Ukraine before 24 February 2022, can also benefit from the temporary protection regime in Spain. For this, they must present a valid permanent residence permit issued according to the laws of Ukraine and that they cannot return to the country or region from which they came in safe and permanent conditions.
agents UCRIF Third Group They learned that there are many temporary protection applicants of different nationalities who have granted temporary residence permits in Ukraine. But their carriers He didn’t know anything about Ukraine, They did not know the smallest detail that aroused suspicion of possible fraud.
UCRIF launched an investigation to verify the documents’ support numbers through the Interpol National Headquarters in Spain, and after contacting its Kiev counterpart, it was found that the documents were not held in the State Migration Register. The physical support itself was real, however, the data entered was not recorded by the competent Ukrainian authorities, confirming that these persons do not have a Ukrainian residence permit.
UCRIF agents identified these individuals and charged them with alleged fraudulent documentation.