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The Greek police in cooperation with Europol have destroyed a criminal organization that falsified identification documents, including Albanian passports, in order to smuggle immigrants.
According to Europol, the Athens-based criminal network produced high-quality forged travel and identification documents, which were used to enable migrants to travel illegally across the EU and legalize their stay at their final destination.
The operation lasted 4 days and 11 people were arrested (3 Palestinians, 3 Latvians, 2 Iranians, 2 Syrians, 1 Lebanese).
Meanwhile, 4 printing presses, 4,650 illegal documents, electronic equipment, 10 high-level laser printers and other equipment/materials for the production of false documents, as well as over 20,000 euros in cash, were seized.
The investigations showed that the criminal network was active since September 2023.
“The suspects used sophisticated equipment to produce high-quality fake travel and identification documents that were particularly difficult to detect as fraudulent. The costs of fake documents ranged from 400 euros to 1,200 euros, depending on the type and country of origin.
Only the documents seized during the raids had a market value of 600,000 euros ," says Europol's announcement.
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