西班牙警方破獲中國非法移民團夥 共57人被捕

Spanish police say they have dismantled a nationwide network that illegally regularised the working status of Chinese immigrants in Spain.

據西班牙警方表示，他們已經搗毀了一個全國性的非法移民網絡，該網絡主要非法偷渡中國勞工到西班牙。

They arrested 57 people in Barcelona, Valencia, San Sebastian and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

西班牙警方在巴塞羅那、瓦倫西亞、聖塞巴斯蒂安和加那利羣島的拉斯帕爾馬斯等地共逮捕了57人。

Chinese Nationals illegally living in Spain reportedly paid the ring 8,000 euro ($8,960; 6,820 pound) each to obtain fake contracts as domestic workers.

據報道，那些非法居住在西班牙的中國公民每人要付給該團伙8000歐元（約合8960美元，6820英鎊）的費用，從而得到成爲西班牙國內工人的假合同。

In return they were given residency permits to work in Barcelona.

如此一來，他們就會獲得在巴塞羅那工作的居住許可。

"They would return to Barcelona once they obtained a residency permit to work in the textile sector, without ever carrying out the job they were hired for," a Spanish police statement said.

西班牙警方在一份聲明中說道：“一旦這些人獲得了居住許可，他們就會回到巴塞羅那。他們會在紡織部門工作，而不是做那些在用工合同上被僱傭的工作。”

The ringleaders, a Chinese couple, allegedly paid employers between 1,500 euro and 2,000 euro for the contracts.

操控這個利益鏈的人是一對中國夫妻，他們承諾每完成一筆合同就支付給僱主1500到2000歐元。

Most of the employers allegedly involved are linked to the hotel trade in Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.

大多數和該案有牽連的僱主都在蘭薩羅特島（加那利羣島中的一座島）上從事酒店業。

Chinese immigrants are the fifth biggest foreign community in Spain with almost 170,000 people as of 2015, according to the National Statistics Institute.

據西班牙國家統計機構的數據顯示，中國移民是西班牙第五大外國人羣體，2015年的時候其人數大概在17萬左右。