Algerian men living abroad use French and British passports to smuggle cars
The national Gendarmerie forces dismantled an international network of seven Algerian people living abroad last week. They marketed cars in Algeria using fake documents with the help of employees in administration.
- Colonel Samir said the arrest came following information about a group of Algerian people living in France and Britain who buy old cars using foreign fake documents.
- According to the same source, the network works with three administrative employees in Algiers to help them in facilitating the administrative procedures. The suspects enter Algeria by an Algerian passport and leave by a British fake one. They seize the opportunity of religious celebrations and holidays to run out the fake cars.
- The national Gendarmerie expended the investigation by collaborating with the French and British Police through the Interpol. The suspects living in France were identified. One of them had a French stolen passport since 2004 in Marseille.
- Two of the suspects are on the run in Britain while the five others appeared in a court in Algiers Tuesday for international smuggling and counterfeiting passports. Three of them are in temporary prison while two others are under judicial surveillance. The eighth suspect is in Mecca performing pilgrimage.