Ouarzazate: Five Individuals Arrested for Falsifying Visa Application Documents and Organizing Irregular Immigration (Security Source)

16 January 2024 Printable Version

Rabat - Elements of the National Security of Ouarzazate arrested, on the evening of Sunday, January 14 and the morning of Monday, January 15, on the basis of precise information provided by the services of the General Directorate of territorial surveillance (DGST), five individuals aged between 27 and 70 years old, including three civil servants and a bookseller, for their alleged involvement in the falsification of documents required to constitute visa application files and the organization of the irregular immigration.

According to the preliminary investigation, the individuals arrested are involved in the mediation aimed at organizing irregular immigration in the rural area "Ekiwin" in the province of Tinghir, by providing documents containing fraudulent data in order to obtain entry visas to European countries, stressed a police source, noting that the bookseller arrested is suspected of having falsified these documents.

Searches carried out in the bookshop belonging to the latter led to the seizure of two computers containing digital traces of a number of passports, employment contracts and various documents registered in the name of third parties, the same source added.

Three suspects were taken into custody, while the others were subjected to a judicial investigation under the supervision of the competent Public Prosecutor's Office, with a view to elucidating the ins and outs of this case and determining any possible ramifications of this criminal activity, the same source added.