Fraud by problems control foreign certificates
Spent: 9 May 2005 22.44 last modified: 9 May
2005 23.21 HILVERSUM - the government check too a little on foreign
huwelijks - and birth certificates. As a result, succeed in
foreign registering itself defrauder there with falsified documents in
the municipal population register. Thus they obtain to social
benefits, housing benefit, child benefit, study financing and other
funds. The poor control becomes clear according to the
television programme from a letter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Cause of the problem proves to be a conflict between foreign
affairs and the municipalities concerning which the costs for the
controls must pay. A spokesman of the department emphasises that
the checking of the documents is the responsibility of the
municipalities. That results from a pronouncement of the Council
of State of 8 September 2004, puts he. ' the responsible agency
for verifying the documents is also responsible for the costs of it.'
Dutch embassies verify, however, the documents for the
municipality where a person communicates himself with its
certificates. Until it was looked at only sharply for short to
birth - and marriage certificates from the Dominican republic, India,
pakistan, Ghana and Nigeria, because those are very frequently
falsified. From the letter of foreign affairs becomes clear
according to NOVA however that there with certificates from much more
countries problems is. It goes out then including for documents
to land such as iran, Iraq, and afghanistan. According to the
Dutch association for Department of Civil Affairs (NVVB) the wide 48
millions euro costs to check all documents. At this moment there
is a number of to municipalities that says: we do not treat
those certificates therefore, tell C. Meesters, President of the NVVB.
According to him take a number of municipalities huwelijks - and
the birth certificates much, this way applicants not let stand whom
sincere are, in heat. According to the Public Prosecution
Service annual thousands falsified certificates are handed in at the
municipal population register. I ' let note that if you listen
to the experts about that well, then 10,000 no found oneself estimate
' is public prosecutor puts F. Speijers. It not only defrauder,
but also concerns according to him offenders who make themselves
guilty to indictable offences varying of ordinary robber stable to
very serious offences as assassination or war crime. (c) DUTCH
PRESS AGENCY
Source "fraud by problems control foreign certificates": nu.nl
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