For this particular case, EL.AS. maintains cooperation with Europol, while a special expert has been summoned, who will assist the investigations with a mobile data analysis unit.
EL.AS police officers arrested a man of Pakistani origin. during a coordinated operation carried out last Thursday, November 24, in the area of Omonia, by the Immigration Management Department of the Directorate of Aliens of Attica. The arrested person is accused of possessing passports and travel documents of a large quantity of third parties and facilitating the entry and exit of foreigners from Greece.
According to EL.AS., in the context of investigating a ring of forgery of travel documents with the aim of facilitating the illegal promotion of immigrants and their legalization in European Union countries, the Pakistani who had developed cooperation with the ring was identified and located.
In particular, the foreigner undertook the preparation of fakes, as well as third-party documents of dubious authenticity and the mass mailing of these to Italy, Spain, Portugal and Austria. For this purpose, he operated in his home, in Omonia, a workshop for the preparation of forged documents, while at the same time he had a significant number of documents available for sale.
The defendant, in order to cover his illegal activities, used the sender’s details for the above shipments of the parcels that contained forged or third-party documents, third-party details, “straw men” or details from forged documents that he had drawn up himself. Even more complex was the way money transfers were handled to pay for travel documents using money courier companies. In particular, using the illegal documents, he received, on behalf of the ring, money transfers from money courier companies, from accomplices from various parts of the USA.
By the combined use of different elements of senders of parcels – accepted remittances, different destinations – recipients of parcels (EU countries) and correspondingly different senders of money (USA) a labyrinthine network of distribution of documents and financial flows had been deliberately created, thus making it difficult the disclosure of criminal activity.
As it emerged from the police investigation, in the last two months, the accused had trafficked more than 33 postal parcels.
From the search carried out at the foreigner’s house, the following were found and confiscated: 77 residence permits (Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Sweden and Greece), 5 Pakistani and Indian passports, 3 consular visas (VISA of Italy, Canada), 3 driving licenses of Greece .
The defendant had drawn up three different types of fake documents for himself with different details bearing his photo, which he used on a case-by-case basis to transport the parcels, while his foreign accomplice was identified and is being sought.
It is noted that, for this specific case, ELAS maintains cooperation with Europol, while a special expert has been summoned, who will assist the investigations with a mobile data analysis unit. The case was implemented in the framework of the implementation of the National Operational Plan and in the framework of action 2.2 of the EMPACT program to combat the illegal promotion of migrants and is part of the operational action with the code name “op Parcel Safe”, which is implemented in cooperation with Europol.
The arrested person was taken to the criminal prosecutor of Athens.
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