Afghanistan’s Passport Department announced Monday the recent arrest of at least 75 “middlemen” and “dozens of other commission agents” for allegedly selling or attempting to sell “fake” Afghan passports and identification cards to an unknown number of people in Afghanistan.
Greek police have not yet commented on whether or not they believe Abedi Elmi’s passports were meant to help facilitate illegal migration.
Greek police arrested three members of a people-trafficking ring on suspicion of supplying migrants with fake coronavirus documents intended to allow them to fly to other European countries.
A 43-year-old Egyptian working as a painter has been arrested for spying on Greek military bases. He is also accused of smuggling “VIP migrants” from Syria.
A group of Syrian illegal immigrants were arrested at an airport in Athens over the weekend after pretending to be a volleyball team with the goal of illegally entering Austria.
People smugglers in Turkey are allegedly advertising their services under the guise of fake “cruises” on social media platform Facebook, offering to ship migrants to Italy for €5,500. The journeys are advertised as a three to four day trip aboard
A former left-wing Social Democrat politician in the province of Småland has been arrested following media allegations that he had boasted about helping to smuggle migrants into Sweden.
A “Syrian” migrant who was arrested last month after allegedly stabbed a man to death with a samurai sword in the middle of a busy street in front of dozens of witnesses was using a false identity to claim asylum.
The Swedish Migration Board has sounded an alarm over the high number of fake Turkish passports being found at border checks, saying some of the passports show advanced forging knowledge.
Despite the German Federal government pushing for asylum seekers to voluntarily return to their countries of origin, several migrants have complained that the German bureaucracy has prevented them from returning at all. One of the migrants who has complained about Germany’s
The number of migrants attempting to enter Germany by aeroplane using forged or fake passports has increased by 70 percent in the second quarter of this year, as they try to get out of crowded Greek camps.
Several former Islamic State militants have been arrested in Jordan over the last week yielding information indicating IS fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria may have traveled abroad on fake European passports, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
Three Iranian citizens were caught in Italy with fake Israeli passports, Israeli authorities were informed over Yom Kippur.
The German federal migrant agency has admitted that they are letting in migrants even when they have full knowledge that the passports and documentation they carry have been forged.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists have access to fake passports they can use to travel legitimately, testified Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
(AFP) – Thai police have broken up a major fake passport ring led by an Iranian known as “The Doctor” which sent thousands of passports to Middle Eastern customers trying to enter Europe, officers said Wednesday. The kingdom has long
The head of the European Union’s border agency has said the large number of refugees entering Europe poses a security risk, with civil war making it harder to check the authenticity of Syrian passports. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing