Udine, false documents and aiding illegal immigration: 7 Georgians arrested

In the early morning of Tuesday 9 July, staff of State Police of the Police Headquarters of Udine, within the scope of the operation “GAIVLIS” (pass in Georgian language), carried out two personal precautionary measures of house arrest against di as many Georgian citizens and a preventive seizure of a property owned by a citizen of Ukrainian origin, seriously suspected of complicity in the production of false community identity documents and aiding and abetting their stay on national territory in a state of illegal immigration.

Investigative activity, directed by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Udine, was launched in September 2023 by the Flying Squad of the Udine Police Headquarters, following some reports received from the territorial offices of the Revenue Agencies of the province, that they reported considerable access to their offices by women, apparently of Georgian nationality, that you However, they presented themselves as community citizens, exhibiting identity documents, valid for expatriation, countries of the European Union, in particular Slovakia, Latvia and Poland.

The presentation of such identification documents for the purposes of issuing the relevant community tax code allowed them, immediately, to be able to access the world of work in the circuit of "caregiver" agencies and enjoy legal, fiscal and health benefits, bypassing the rules that regulate the entry and stay in the national territory of non-EU citizens, by virtue of a real "pass".

The first investigations in this regard highlighted the presence of a man and two women of Georgian origin and one of Ukrainian origin that, in the offices of the aforementioned territorial offices they provided assistance to foreign women in the compilation of the practices necessary to obtain tax codes.

The investigations carried out, also with the collaboration of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police Service for International Police Cooperation, on the identity documents presented by women at these locations, allowed us to ascertain their falsity.

Last February, in the province of Udine were arrested in flagrante delicto of which of the art. 497-bis of the criminal code, 5 Georgian women found in possession of such documents; some of them in the meantime were already registered in the INPS register e employed with a regular contract as carers; other 5 were referred to the Judicial Authority in a state of freedom for the same crime.

simultaneously, the investigation aimed, also through technical activity, to identify the individuals who procured the false documents a in exchange for a monetary consideration, with rates from 300 to 1000 euros for each practice.

Judicial police activity experienced allowed the collection of evidence against four people that, not only for the province of Udine, they were reference for foreign women because they are able to produce o however provide false community documents and host foreign women in some homes, feeding an illicit activity for profit with daily collection of substantial sums of money.

Si in fact ascertained that the proceeds of this illicit activity had allowed these subjects, referred to the Judicial Authority as well as for the competition in the provision of false documents valid for expatriation also for aiding and abetting to illegal residence in the territory of the State, to buy two apartments in the center of Udine, one of which is used for exclusive hospitality, upon payment of 10 euros per day, of foreigners, up to 12 at the same time, many of which are in a state of clandestinity. During the activity it emerged that some of the women hosted in the past also came from southern Italian provinces.

The agents on Tuesday morning they implemented the precautionary measure of house arrest against two of them and simultaneously executed the preventive seizure ordered by the GIP of an apartment located in the town of Via Roma. During the During the execution phase of the seizure, 7 other foreign citizens were found inside the building, 6 of Georgian origin and one Ukrainian, two of them clandestine and in possession of fake Slovak identity card and coming from the province of Reggio Calabria.

During the personal and local searches delegated by the Judicial Authority  and carried out in the same morning, were subjected to criminal seizure as well as various documents e payment receipts by money transfer for the benefit of Also under investigation are the sum of 12.000 euros and various gold jewellery, in whose possession one of the suspects did not provide any valid title or justification and were deemed to be the proceeds of the illicit activity.