Police Identify 60 Sham Marriages

Sapo

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The objective was to “inflationary regulation of foreign citizens”. The content of more than 50 inmates in PJ operations against a network that recruited women to marry immigrants appeared first in Journal i.

Observador

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A criminal plan emerged through social networks, with the aim of misleadingly regulating foreign citizens. To marry Portuguese women, they had to pay high amounts.

Jornal Expresso

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The scheme has made more than EUR 2 million to the group composed of Portuguese and foreign people. The new fakes are all out of the country and have been identified. Authorities from other countries will cooperate with the PJ in the case.

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According to the PJ, the plan to “promoting the fraudulent regulation of foreign citizens” was concrete through social networks and would initially pass on to the interested parties, in combined meetings in Portugal”, which “the easiest way to regulate and obtain residence authorisation would be with the opening of a company”. “Supportually, since such procedures were required, the suspects had to suggest that marriages were made with Portuguese…

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The Digital Alliance Operation was developed in particular in Great Lisbon, involving the collaboration of about 300 elements of the Judiciary Police, having been carried out 57 search and investigation orders.