This afternoon.
Via RTÉ News
Europol has warned that fake negative Covid-19 test certificates and documentation are being sold to people, enabling them to avoid travel restrictions, and have identified an Irish criminal gang as allegedly being involved.
The European law enforcement agency said it received intelligence on the alleged use of a mobile application by an Irish Mobile Organised Crime Group based in the south of the country, which allows for the manual falsification of test results.
It has said several cases of such fraudulent certificates being sold to travellers have already emerged…
Anyone?
Warning over sale of fake Covid-19 travel documents (RTÉ)
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why am i not surprised.
anyway, how much are they? asking for a friend, obvs
article says £100 in the UK, which seems kind of mad
I got mine for €9
Problem can only be solved by a vaccine passport – ROQU are a step ahead, yet again.
https://irishtechnews.ie/roqu-group-health-passport-ireland/
Glad to see RTÉ playing their part.
This ROQU?
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40207937.html
As far as I can make out, yes!
that’ll be the brexit so.
Brexit concerns you, scottser, but ROQU doesn’t?
Or, am I on your ignore list?
nothing as drastic benblack, you just have little of interest to say to me.
But enough for you to reply.
Sold to ‘travellers’ or to ‘Travellers’?
Given the movements of the travelling community between Ireland and Britain over Christmas, these fake documents would certainly suit their lifestyle.
ahh i hadnt seen much racism on broadsheet till now.
Not this stupid post needs a reply, but i cant resist, how many flights carrying thousands came into ireland over xmas with emigrated irish returning for xmas.
Interpol says it was the Rathkeale Rovers. Are Interpol rascist too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathkeale_Rovers
hahaha,, a criminal gang??!!! im sure some 10 year old could use powerpoint to make up a cert.
I had to get one recently and it was an email with a barcode in it – airport police scanned the barcode
so i think more to it than easy forgery
RTÉ news changed that article because it mentions the ‘Rathkeale Rovers’ earlier.
This is from the Jornal. “Europol said that one of the gangs carrying out these crimes is the Rathkeale Rovers organised crime group. Europol said it received additional intelligence on the “alleged use of a mobile application by the Rathkeale Rovers Mobile Organised Crime Group which allows members of the organised crime group to manually falsify test results”.
Fair play to the lad’s!, Irish ingenuity at its best! Creating jobs and wealth in the middle of the crisis.
Jesus wept!