Latvian police contacted gardai final year after they received reports that women through the nation, that has come right right here for arranged marriages of convenience to teenage boys from Pakistan and an amount of African countries, had later suffered trafficking, rape, false imprisonment and violence.
The Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) established procedure Charity and began breaking down on the large-scale scam to draw poor eastern European girls right right here for “convenience” or sham marriages. Ireland is just a specific target for organised Pakistani criminals specialising during these marriages.
Gardai may bring prosecutions where there was proof of trafficking or intimate or physical violence. They can also prosecute for possessing documents that are fake. But due to a 2008 judgement by the Court that is european of overruling our immigration laws and regulations, they can’t prosecute individuals throughout the sham marriages alone. The Baltic states brides are EU residents and eligible to be right here. Continue reading “Wanted: EU Destitute women from eastern European countries are risking severe risk coming right right here for sham weddings arranged by Pakistani and African criminal activity gangs, writes Jim Cusack.”