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German authorities conducted a large-scale ambush against an world quality smuggling pack early Wednesday, constabulary said successful a statement.
More than 1,000 constabulary officers searched dozens of homes, stores and offices across occidental and confederate Germany and arrested 10 suspects, including 2 lawyers.
The suspects are accused of having illegally taken advantage of typical German migration rules reserved only for skilled overseas workers to procure residency permits for astir 350 mostly Chinese nationals — who don’t meet nan needed criteria — successful speech for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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According to nan regular Bild newspaper, respective employees of migration offices were bribed successful nan scam.
Police officers guidelines adjacent a building that is being searched successful Solingen, Germany, connected April 17, 2024. The Duesseldorf nationalist prosecutor's agency has arrested 10 suspects successful a large-scale ambush against an world smuggling pack successful 8 national states. More than 1000 officers from nan national constabulary and nan nationalist prosecutor's agency person been progressive successful nan cognition since nan early morning. A full of 101 residential and business premises were searched. (Gianni Gattus/dpa via AP)
Raids were carried retired successful nan states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria, Hamburg and Berlin wherever constabulary seized assets and collected evidence.
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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser thanked constabulary and prosecutors for nan "massive onslaught against world organized migrant smuggling."
"In nan conflict against smuggling gangs, we request precisely this precocious level of investigative unit and this accordant crackdown," nan curate added. "We will proceed this reliable attack against organized migrant smuggling."
The investigation focused connected North Rhine-Westphalia, wherever nan 10 suspects were detained.
