Photo: DPAGerman police on Tuesday said they have broken up a fake marriage ring that paired Portuguese women with Nigerian men who paid thousands of euros for a chance to gain EU residency. Police arrested five suspects, including four women, as they carried out raids in more than 40 locations across the German capital, Berlin police and prosecutors said in a statement. The ring would then falsify documents such as marriage certificates. "So far we have established more than 70 cases where marriages were faked to obtain EU residency permits," the police statement said. German police said they worked with Europol and their Portuguese counterparts to smash the ring, and that searches also took place in Portugal.

Source: The Local September 12, 2017 15:11 UTC