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2019-10-28 Europe
German embassy worker allegedly sold visas to Lebanese clan — report
[DW] German authorities are looking for a former embassy worker who allegedly sold visa documents to members of a Lebanese clan. The clan then used the documents to smuggle Syrian refugees into Germany, according to a report.

A Lebanese man who used to work at the German embassy in Beirut is wanted by authorities over alleged "irregularities" involving visa documents, according to a report by the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

"We are working closely with the relevant criminal investigative authorities in this case," the German Foreign Office told the paper, adding that the suspect no longer works at the embassy.

The man reportedly worked in the embassy's visa department until 2017 and is believed to have taken so-called "visa stickers" ‐ papers that are inserted into passports and are necessary to travel to Germany.

He then allegedly sold the visa documents to a Lebanese clan, who in turn used them to smuggle Syrian refugees into Germany.

According to Bild am Sonntag,German authorities were tipped off to the man's activities following nationwide raids against suspected people trafficking gangs last Thursday.

The visa documents were reportedly used to smuggle 26 Syrian refugees to Germany and the Netherlands between August 2018 and September 2019.

The refugees had to pay the clan between €4,500 and €15,000 ($4,980 to $16,600) per person in order to secure the visas, reported news agency DPA.

Lebanese clans have increasingly come under scrutiny in Germany in recent months, and have been the target of several raids in Berlin and the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-28 02:19|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Moslem Colonists 

#1 Don't employ locals in sensitive positions, a$$holes.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-10-28 02:33||   2019-10-28 02:33|| Front Page Top

#2 In the late 1980s Paraguayan officials sold thousands of visas and travel documents to Lebanese Hizbollah. The result was an explosion of arabs in the Brazil-Argentina-Paraguay borderland, and, later, murderous attacks on Jewish organizations in Argentina.
Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-10-28 08:49||   2019-10-28 08:49|| Front Page Top

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