Spanish police say they have dismantled a nationwide network that illegally regularised the working status of Chinese immigrants in Spain. They arrested 57 people in Barcelona, Valencia, San Sebastian and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Chinese nationals illegally living in Spain reportedly paid the ring 8,960 dollars each to obtain fake contracts as domestic workers.
In return they were reportedly given residency permits to work in Barcelona. Most of the employers allegedly involved are linked to the hotel trade in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.
According to the National Statistics Institute, Chinese immigrants are the fifth biggest foreign community in Spain with almost 170,000 people as of 2015.