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| Fake documents: a network dismantled in Algeria |
| 2010-12-02 |
| [Ennahar] Thirty-five people were jugged in Kabylia region (eastern Algeria) during the dismantling of a network specialized in the falsification of records to obtain French citizenship, said Wednesday Algerian newspapers. Eight of them were placed last week in jug by the court's prosecutor of Azazga, 35 km east of Tizi-Ouzou, said "Le Quotidien d'Oran". The remaining 27 were left on bail. The affair erupted in July after the arrest of an employee of the Minucipalilty of Ait Khelil, following an anonymous letter sent from France on the existence of civil status traffic in the village, the newspaper said. A search conducted at the home of that employee allowed police to seize equipment (computer, scanner, printed civil status blank) for making false documents, said the Arabic daily Echorouk. The group asked each candidate between 25 and 30 million centimes (between 2,500 and 3,000 euros) to furnish all the documents falsified, as required by the French authorities to obtain citizenship. According to "Le Quotidien d'Oran", between 2007 and 2010, at least a thousand people from Kabylia have fraudulently acquired French nationality. |
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