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The AN judges four people on Monday for creating a network that facilitated the illegal entry of Iranians into Europe

Spain was used as a springboard to later reach destinations such as the United Kingdom, Canada or the United States.

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The AN judges four people on Monday for creating a network that facilitated the illegal entry of Iranians into Europe

Spain was used as a springboard to later reach destinations such as the United Kingdom, Canada or the United States.

MADRID, 21 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Court is judging four people accused of constituting a criminal organization that facilitated the illegal immigration of citizens from Middle Eastern countries, mainly Iran, to countries of the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada.

The indictment of the Prosecutor's Office, in which prison sentences ranging from four to seven years are requested for a crime against the rights of foreign citizens, explains that two of the defendants, Zorik Mailian Markarian and Albert Galtsev, collaborated with other members of the network residing in Iran to obtain transfers of people with authentic tourist visas to the European Union.

It indicates that they obtained these visas from diplomatic legations of certain European countries, such as Italy, France or Austria, through other collaborators who "fraudulently" obtained them. In fact, from the investigation, it has been proven that the average time to obtain these visas would be around two months, and that the members of the organization obtained them in 15 days "in exchange for paying certain economic amounts to the employees of the embassies", who accelerated and facilitated the procedures.

Both defendants told citizens who wanted to obtain a visa that they should include in their applications pay slips or work contracts from Iranian Radio Television or appear as members of the Chamber of Commerce. This made it easier to obtain despite the fact that the documentation provided "was simulated" and generated a visa with erroneous data.

Once in Europe, the citizens controlled by the organization were offered two options to reach the chosen destination, generally the United Kingdom: one was to remain in that country until they were given documentation and a plane ticket, and another was to travel to Spain. where the defendants Zorik Mailian and Albert Galtsev were staying at different addresses until they provided them with documentation and a travel plan. If they opted for Spain, they used to fly to Malaga and were located in different rented apartments in that province. In Spain they provided them with food, the necessary belongings and the pertinent change of appearance to obtain the physical appearance of the person whose identity they were going to impersonate.

The organization had in Spain the defendants Miguel Ángel Alba Flores and Vanesa Pino, who are in charge of obtaining Spanish passports by convincing people in their family or friends to issue them by changing their physical appearance in order to try to look like victims of illegal immigration. The Prosecutor's Office explains that the 'modus operandi' was to photograph the transferees to locate similar people, from whom they bought their passports. They had to adapt their image, removing or leaving a beard, for example.

Regarding the purchase of plane tickets, the Prosecutor's Office explains that these were usually obtained from the same agency in Fuengirola and always "after the issuance of the passport to be usurped." The purchase was made by two of the defendants in cash and the airports chosen were usually Malaga and Madrid for Spain, and Faro or Lisbon in Portugal.

The Public Ministry adds that to reach the final destination, an intermediate stopover was generally made in cities such as Oslo (Norway), Basel (Switzerland) or Nuremberg (Germany), because they knew that direct flights between Spain and the United Kingdom usually have Random checks of documentation prior to shipment by the Police.

On the plane, the victims of the network were ordered to destroy their passports before arriving at the documentary control of the final destination of the trip, so that once they arrived, they would tell the competent authorities that they were undocumented, that they were Iranian citizens. and that they request to take advantage of international protection measures, alleging in almost all cases an alleged conversion to the Christian faith that motivates them to be persecuted in their country. And they arrived undocumented, in addition to destroying the Spanish passport, because their authentic passports were retained by the network

The Prosecutor's Office explains that the victims were charged for this transfer according to need, the most complete being 15,000 to 20,000 euros if the destination was the United Kingdom, and up to 32,000 if they wanted to enter the US or Canada. They used to charge "trafficked persons" 50% in advance and the rest in Spain before the second trip to destination.

For these facts, the Prosecutor's Office charges the four with a crime against the rights of foreign citizens, but Pino and Alba Flores as necessary cooperators. In addition, the brief indicates that in the case of Mailian Markarian there is the mitigating circumstance of collaboration with the authorities.