A complete workshop that made fakes travel documentswhich was intended for the illegal promotion of immigrants, mainly by air, was found on Tuesday (27.05.2025) in Attica during a police operation.
A man was arrested on the case, after appropriate use of information and investigation by the Directorate of Aliens of Attica, a man who was filed for forgery, as well as a violation of a third -person passport – travel document.
The defendant has made fake travel jokes at least from 2024, earning money, ranging from 300 to 900 euros per document, depending on his type and country of origin, while taking special measures to conceal his criminal activity. In particular, he had installed the workshop in a home room and to make it difficult to identify orders from the affiliated immigrant trafficking networks through online communication applications, while the fake documents he handled to his associates were delivered in a conspiracy, making short.
In a home survey, the laboratory equipment, such as multipurpose machines (printers), laptop, thermalist, UV detection device, external storage of digital data as well as more than 880 travel documents in digital documents were found and confiscated. countries and 2 mobile phones.
In addition, documents of various countries were seized, in physical form, fully trained or under training process, and in particular:
• 24 identity cards,
• 26 passports, 85 pages of individual passport details, 40 covers of passports,
• 15 residence permits,
• 8 driving skill licenses,
• 4 Bulletin Applicant International Protection,
• 2 insurance cards,
• 2 Special Input Consulates (Visa) and
• 59 gelatins with safety elements of the respective genuine.
As noted by ELAS, the laboratory’s equipment in combination with digital evidence provided the ability to draw up counterfeit documents massively and professionally, with the estimated illegal financial benefit, estimated to exceed 120,000 euros.
The detainee was led to the competent prosecutor’s office, while the documents and digital evidence seized will be sent to the Criminal Investigations Division for laboratory testing.