Wiza do Kanady za $8,000

Kanadyjska policja federalna (RCMP) podjela sledztwo w zwiazku z podejrzeniami o korupcje - kupowania w ambasadzie wiz do Kanady. "Nawet najwiekszy kryminalista moze kupic sobie wize do Kanady" - mowi Polonus z Toronto, ktory podobno zna takie przypadki. Zalatwienie sobie wizy do Kanady poza oficjalna droga kosztuje 8 tys. dolarow.

RCMP probing Polish immigration scam

TOM GODFREY

Toronto Sun

Mounties are probing an alleged immigration scam at the Canadian embassy in Poland in which dozens of Poles may have been sent here illegally without background checks.
RCMP officers were at the embassy in Warsaw last week interviewing diplomats and support staff in the visa section, security officials and Polish community members said yesterday.
Police are poring through documents relating to the issuing of Canadian visas for the past two years, sources said.
"There were no background checks required," said one Toronto-area Pole, who knew others who said they paid for visa. "Even the worst criminal can buy a visa for Canada."
Local Poles said they paid $8,000 per visa to an Etobicoke man in order to bring their relatives here.
They claimed the man acted as a front for two embassy support workers, who allegedly issued the visas.
The man would then allegedly transfer some of the cash and identification for the visas to embassy workers, said community members.
The workers would reportedly short-circuit the embassy computer system and issue "emergency" handwritten visas. The transaction was later logged on the computer system.
Immigration spokesman Marina Wilson said she couldn't comment yesterday due to a possible investigation. Foreign affairs spokesman Pamela Greenweld couldn't confirm or deny the allegations of a probe.
RCMP spokesman Sgt. Martin Blais said his force could not comment at this time (TORONTO SUN, Tuesday, February 7, 2006).