Kosovars paid 5,000 euros for false citizenship tests: Gang to Court

Only surname, name, name, birth date and signature must be learned. It was easy to remember” That's how Genco P describes it. (25, changed name) the way you register with another person's passport to pass integration tests.

Like a German with good language skills, Genco P. Who works as a rescue agent, he didn't have any problems with homework, he writes marble.

The 25-year-old said in court Friday that he was sure he had passed all written exams for others who had applied for natralisation in Germany.

Four collaborators (Kosovos and Iraqis) are accused beside him, including a 23-year-old woman, broadcast albinfo.ch. She has also accepted the work and claims to have acted because she had a lack of money. Like Genco P., she has received 300 euros for a test.

Prosecutor Laura Fischer, in reading one hour of the indictment, had listed 18 cases of gang smuggling, with foreigners, forging documents and helping also on gang bases to facilitate naturalisation.

The gang has been cheating on a large scale on integration tests. According to the indictment, the two defendants (32, 36) had committed others to conducting linguistic tests using their clients' manipulated identity cards.

The gang's clients have come mainly from Kosovo and paid 2,500 to 5,000 euros for past tests successfully, sends albinfo.ch. Such tests are necessary, for example, to obtain naturalization, German citizenship, or residence permits.

“Federal Office is aware of false identity cases during tests” has said a spokeswoman for the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). This kind of gang crime is very rare, according to the office in question.

Lawyer Thomas Pfister had already stated at the beginning of the trial that his client Genc P. He had accepted the work since the investigation. The 25-year-old reported also on the case when he was discovered, sends albinfo.ch. An employee of the affected language school in Munich had noticed from the passport that something was not right, Genco P., and his two associates were forced to leave.