Santo Domingo.- The Spanish authorities are scandalized by the large number of Dominican immigrants who have managed to enter that nation with forged or adulterated documents, which are obtained in "clandestine consulates" run by racketeers who deceive naïve victims with promises to fix legitimate travel for sums ranging from 4 to 7,000 euros.

The Spanish consulate in this country told the newspaper Diario Libre that just in the last 10 months, 786 Dominicans have been returned from various Spanish airports when it was discovered that they had illegal documents, which represents an average of 78 people per month, equaling 2 people daily.

The recruiters of the racketeering ring in the country and with ramifications in Spain operate in the very doors of the Spanish embassy, where hundreds of Dominicans go daily to seek a Spanish visa.

"It is very difficult to control those Mafias because they choose naïve people. We have set 170 daily appointments like the dentists, to take attend them all, but there is always a pile of even buscones (intermediaries) with pistols," said Antonio Bausá, chancellor of the Spanish consulate in the Dominican Republic.

He said that the police constantly eject those buscones from the embassy’s vicinity, but these devise the manner to mix with the public and he asked himself: How do those people give money and believe what those buscones tell them?"