(RTTNews) - New Delhi has sought consular access to one of its national, the sole Indian picked up by the Spanish police in a terror sweep Tuesday, media reports said.
Indian officials will question Jangeet Singh who was arrested from Valencia and then decide whether to seek his extradition. The government is talking to Spanish police on the case.
In an operation, codenamed Operation Fish, Spanish police in coordination with its counterparts from other European countries arrested 11 Pakistanis from Barcelona and the Indian, suspecting this organised crime group of forging passports and other travel documents for terror organisations, including al-Qaida. The 12 men were brought to Madrid and produced in court Wednesday.
According to Spanish police, the network that they claim to have busted is involved in counterfeit documents, human trafficking and drug smuggling, and linked with document forgery and connected to other groups in France, Belgium, Switzerland, U.K., Germany and Thailand.
The group is alleged to have stolen passports and forwarded them to Thailand where they were altered and sent back to criminal gangs in Europe. Reports said the police recovered a lot of material relating to passport forgery including blank passports, mobile phones, photographs of some whose passports were being faked etc.
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