Criminality: Security services arrest a gang for selling counterfeited Schengen visas

Investigating judge at Annaba court, sentenced on Thursday, three people, aging between 30 and 40 years, from Khenchla, eastern Algeria, in temporary detention, on charges of organizing a criminal gang specialized in fraud, use of fraudulent, as they were arrested by the services of financial team at the security services of Annaba.

Security services launched intensive investigations based on a complaint by a victim, a university graduated in 2012  from the institute of civil architecture in Annaba Badji Mokhtari university, and who wished to have a visa Schengen to flee unemployment and bad conditions, one of the criminals offers him counterfeited documents, including  job certificates and wages documents and other administrative and identity documents which the French consulate required in Annaba.   

However, he was surprised when his file was rejected because of fraud documents which he obtained giving 20.000 dinars to the criminals, then he survived a judicial pursuit, and decided to fill a complaint to the security services, which opened investigations, and led to the arrest of the key accused, 34 having a graduation of high technician in computing, and who was in charge of prepare fraudulent documents for the victims using labels of famous companies in Annaba, and public administration through the use of fraud signatures, while his partners trapped the victims to buy fraudulent documents, as the police of finance files monitored them until they succeeded in arresting them in flagrant activity near the headquarters of the French consulate in Annaba.