Large-scale raid: police smash suspected smuggler group

Created: 2022-01-26Updated: 2022-01-26 13:35

By: Eric Sharp

During a raid, the police broke up a suspected group of people smugglers.

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The federal police launched a large-scale raid against people smugglers.

17 people are accused.

A Frankfurt authority is also investigating.

Frankfurt/Kaiserslautern – In the fight against people smugglers, the police launched a large-scale raid on Wednesday (01/26/2022).

On behalf of the public prosecutor's office in Kaiserslautern, officials from the main customs office in Saarbrücken are searching more than 60 objects.

This was announced by the federal police.

The Federal Police Inspectorate for Combating Crime in Frankfurt is also involved in the campaign.

The focus of the raid is a 48-year-old German from the southern Palatinate.

He is the suspected head of a group of criminals who, with his recruitment agency, are said to have recruited over 300 nationals from non-EU countries with false European ID documents and smuggled them into Germany.

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According to the police, those who were smuggled were placed as workers in various sectors.

"The investigations into suspected commercial smuggling of foreigners, forgery of documents, withholding and embezzlement of wages and tax evasion are currently directed against a total of 17 suspects," the federal police said.

According to the Federal Police, several objects in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland were searched on Wednesday.

According to their own statements, around 1,500 officials secured several pieces of evidence.

The allegations under immigration law are being processed by a joint investigative team from the Federal Police Inspectorate for Combating Crime in Frankfurt and the Federal Police Inspectorate in Kaiserslautern.

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Most recently, the police launched a raid in Hesse because of fake vaccination cards *.