Spanish police have broken up a gang of Romanian human traffickers who were faking identity documents and credit cards. Twenty-two people have been arrested, the majority of them Romanians, between Valencia and Alicante in southeast Spain.  In the past month, police have broken a similar gang involved in prostituting Eastern European women who were brought to Spain on false pretences.  The investigation began in 2003, after a Romanian girl claimed a gang had forced her into prostitution.  The gang specialized in brining Romanian women, often under-age girls, to Spain to force them into prostitution, using fake documents.  Police seized false passports, identity papers, credit cards, scanners, computers, printers and one firearm and one fake gun.

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Nearly 250 violators of United Arab Emirates immigration rules have been detained by the emirate's Criminal Investigation Department in the past three months. A police official said the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had been organizing frequent raids throughout the emirate.  According to Gulf News Online, The officer said the 242 offenders comprised those who had violated UAE immigration rules after arriving in the country and those who had entered the country illegally. The official added all the violators have been referred to the authorities to be deported and said the inspection campaigns would continue in the emirate.