According to the director of the SIC's institutional communication and press office, criminal investigation superintendent Manuel Halaiwa, the suspect pretended to be a travel agent and promised, for the amount of more than 1.6 million kwanzas, to obtain visas for the Brazil for an Angolan citizen, his wife and child.
Manuel Halaiwa said that the man incurs the crimes of fraud for fraud and forgery of documents, noting that, under pressure from the victim, he ended up falsifying the visas.
"This individual forged the document, he scanned the vignettes that are used in this migratory act in a cyber café as if they were authentic visas, when in fact it is a fake tourist visa for the Federative Republic of Brazil, visas have no value none," he said.
The SIC spokesperson stressed that another citizen involved in a similar case was also recently arrested, but investigations indicate that there is no connection between the two.
"He was arrested for extorting several people who wanted to deal with the visa. It is extortion, people are in distress and want a visa and they offer themselves as having the ability to do so, urgently, quickly or quickly and people pay the stipulated values are substantial values", he stressed.
Manuel Halaiwa stressed that the difference between the two lies in the fact that, in the latter case, the detainee falsified his visas, while in the former, the visas would be real.
"He said that he tricked the person and he knew it wouldn't work, he was aware of that and that in a way the person would find out, but as he needed money he gave the coup", he stressed.
In the first arrest, Manuel Halaiwa explained, the visas are real, "only obtained unofficially, through influence peddling."
"That is why we are assuming that they must have people with those consulates who are facilitating this action. The investigations are continuing and in the investigations we have carried out, the accused says that the money is delivered to an alleged consulate employee", added the criminal investigator, admitting that "besides these two individuals there may be other false intermediaries acting in the same way to get money".
