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Spain Dismantles Smuggling Group Providing Fake Passports to Migrants for Entry to Canada: Police

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Spain Dismantles Smuggling Group Providing Fake Passports to Migrants for Entry to Canada: Police

An Air Canada plane is seen at Pearson Airport in Toronto, on July 24, 2024. The Canadian Press/Christopher Katsarov

Spanish police say they’ve dismantled a criminal organization that was providing fake passports to migrants so they could enter Canada.

The operation facilitated mostly Yemeni migrants and involved more than 40 attempts to get into the U.K. or Canada on fake airline tickets and passports, the police said in an Aug. 4 news release.

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