Madrid/Palma.—Spanish police arrested 422 people as they swooped on a vast fake employment scam that cost the state at least 2.6 million euros, the government said yesterday.
The nationwide network, which operatde here in Majorca where a number of arrestst have been made, sold fake work contracts, which let people apply for unemployment benefits, foreign resident permits, and, for inmates, open prison status, the Interior Ministry said.
Majorca caught up in employment scam
Arrests were made in Majorca and across the country. | Fernando Alvarado