21-4-2016 in the Hive, from officers of the Department of Prosecution of Illegal Migration of Aliens Directorate of Attica.
Were arrested, two (2) foreign nationals of Iran, between the ages of 21 and 39 years of age and their weight, is formed, prosecution for the offences of forgery of certificates by occupation, by custom and repeated, for the convenience of entry-exit in our Country, persons of third countries as well as for the possession of passports of third persons.
The arrested had installed in the apartment of the Hive, a state of the art training workshop on scratch forged documents, high fidelity, which sold to interested parties as against a sum of money ranging from 500 to 1,200 euros, depending on the type and the alleged country of issue.
The documents made, mainly passports and id cards were meant for the legalization of the residence as well as for the promotion of migrants from and to the Country.
The perpetrators, as revealed by the seized technical equipment, operating with high professionalism and to compile from scratch fake travel documents in high fidelity.
The above equipment has provided the possibility of training documents by at least thirty-two (32) countries, european and non-european, and they were entirely indicative of special electric lathe for engraving marks is evenly spaced and slide security διαβατήÏιων, cutting edge printers, θεÏμοκολλητÎÏ‚ suitable for the formation of ασημοτυπιών and χÏυσοτυπιών used in the security elements of documents, computers with special software, as well as moulds and stamps of Greek and foreign Authorities. Still, the lab had a special paint for the coloring of the cover as well as leather rolls for their investment, as well as special threads for sewing them together.
From further research in the laboratory, in addition to equipment, were found and seized, without limitation:
• Sixty-one (61) of fake passports of various Countries
• Thirty-eight (38) identity cards of various Countries
• Three (3) residence permits
• Four (4) licenses driving ability
• Crowd photo type passport and id card
• Hundreds of χÏυσοτυπίες, watermarks, covers, passport, plastic cards etc
The arrested were driven to mr public Prosecutor at first instance of Athens.
The cuffs in a couple of Iranians in the Hive they Had set up a state of the art lab and “running” fake documents [photos]
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