Casablanca: Dismantling of an Algerian passport forgery network
The network was headed by an Algerian citizen and his concubine, and other Algerian nationals acting as intermediaries for clients.
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The police stationed at the Mohammed V Airport in Casablanca arrested 6 Algerian nationals who were legally residing in Morocco, but were preparing to fly to Marseille in France, with false travel documents.
The action began when three of the defendants Algerian showed up at the counter of the border police at the airport with European passports.
The policeman on duty, reports MAP, noticed that three Algerians seemed frightened, he immediately asked to search their belongings, the police came to search them and discovered that the passports of the three travellers bore forged stamps, and one of them had on him, in addition to his Algerian passport, another false Belgian passport.
Taken to the police station and interviewed, three Algerians confessed, they informed the police of three other Algerians, who were identified and picked up by the police upon arrival at Mohammed V Airport, also equipped with forged travel documents.
The six suspects confessed that when they arrived legally in Morocco, for the celebration of the new year, they moved to a hotel in Casablanca where they were contacted by an Algerian national, who was part of a network for the falsification of European travel documents.
Among five Algerians arrested said they had paid 3,000 and 4,000 euros for false documents in Casablanca, the sixth is a woman, mean while who said she bought her fake French travel document in Algiers, and paid 4,200 euros .
She confessed that she was told that the brain of the network is an Algerian who is a friend hers in Casablanca and that it was he who lead their counterparts from Morocco to Europe with their false passports.
The police identified his concubine in Algeria, while the Algerian succeeded in fleeing to Tunisia.
The action began when three of the defendants Algerian showed up at the counter of the border police at the airport with European passports.
The policeman on duty, reports MAP, noticed that three Algerians seemed frightened, he immediately asked to search their belongings, the police came to search them and discovered that the passports of the three travellers bore forged stamps, and one of them had on him, in addition to his Algerian passport, another false Belgian passport.
Taken to the police station and interviewed, three Algerians confessed, they informed the police of three other Algerians, who were identified and picked up by the police upon arrival at Mohammed V Airport, also equipped with forged travel documents.
The six suspects confessed that when they arrived legally in Morocco, for the celebration of the new year, they moved to a hotel in Casablanca where they were contacted by an Algerian national, who was part of a network for the falsification of European travel documents.
Among five Algerians arrested said they had paid 3,000 and 4,000 euros for false documents in Casablanca, the sixth is a woman, mean while who said she bought her fake French travel document in Algiers, and paid 4,200 euros .
She confessed that she was told that the brain of the network is an Algerian who is a friend hers in Casablanca and that it was he who lead their counterparts from Morocco to Europe with their false passports.
The police identified his concubine in Algeria, while the Algerian succeeded in fleeing to Tunisia.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Casablanca-Dism...