Suspect arrested for helping individuals leave Greece with stolen documents

A 57-year-old Spanish national was arrested at Athens International Airport earlier this week on suspicion of assisting four Cuban nationals depart from Greece using stolen travel documents. 

The four Cubans were also arrested, while the Spaniard was charged with possessing a third party’s travel documents, taking the proceeds of crime, and assisting third-party nationals to unlawfully enter and exit Greece. 

The suspect is accused of systematically delivering stolen travel documents to foreign nationals, as he did with the four Cubans on March 6, and giving them the legitimate passports of third individuals who resembled them. 

The four were arrested before boarding their flights, with two of them carrying passports that had been reported as missing or stolen.