Pamplona (EFE).- The Civil Guard has arrested nine people and has dismantled a criminal organization for favoring fraudulent registration of homes in Navarra. More than a hundred migrants in an irregular situation have been counted who had been charged between 500 and 700 euros.
This is the “Yunus” operation, in which it has been found that this organization was recruiting migrants who needed to regularize their situation in Spain and who were residing irregularly in Europe.
In exchange for an economic consideration, they fraudulently processed the registration. For this, the organization had a network that captured, transferred and accompanied the victims to carry out the procedures, the armed Institute reported in a note.
The leader of the network, already in pretrial detention without bail, acted as a point of contact between the members of the criminal group and the migrants interested in regularizing their situation. Under his criteria, he set the conditions of the services offered and the prices that were demanded for their realization.
Benefits of 60,000 euros
In total, more than a hundred fraudulent registrations have been recorded with profits of around 60,000 euros, since for each procedure they charged between 500 and 700 euros per victim.
Once the migrant had accepted the price he would pay for the registration, the leader gave instructions to the rest of the members to carry out the service. For this, they had a network of owners who provided their home as a place of residence in which they would establish in the census.
In the deployment carried out by the Civil Guard, nine people of various nationalities have been arrested in Navarra and La Rioja, and three homes have also been registered in the Navarrese towns of San Adrián and Estella. In them, mobile phones and documentation for study have been seized, in addition to cash
