Gang forging passports for refugees busted in Greece
‘Greek and British authorities say they have broken up an international criminal network suspected of supplying hundreds of illegal refugees striving to reach the UK and northern European countries with forged travel documents.
Police Lieutenant General Christos Papazafiris, of the Hellenic Police Security Division of Attica, and Chris Hogben, from Border Policing Command of the British National Crime Agency (NCA), made the announcement at a joint press conference on Monday.
The pair further said that 24 suspects had been arrested in the Greek capital of Athens on Thursday, all aged between 26 and 45, adding that nine other suspects, belonging to the British arm of the gang, had been taken into custody during a series of raids in the British cities of Glasgow, Manchester and Northampton last Monday and Tuesday.’
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