Six Italian
police officers who issued residency permits to migrants in return for bribes
of several thousand Euros have been arrested.
According to
the ANSA news agency, Four of the officers were jailed, two were placed under
house arrest, and two “intermediaries” were also arrested.
The
policemen worked in the migration office of the Milanese police but, prior to
their arrest, had already been moved to other departments as suspicions arose
about their conduct. They are alleged to
have accepted bribes ranging from 500 to 5,000 Euros (595 to 5,950 dollars) for
long-term residency permits, which could eventually lead to Italian
citizenship. Investigations documented
over a hundred cases of corruption from 2013 to 2016, and stemmed from the
arrest last year of another allegedly corrupt member of the police’s migration
office.
The police
officer who was apprehended in November 2016 was said to have started selling
residence permits to migrants in order to feed a cocaine addiction.
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