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Germany seeks answers from Poland in a visa fraud scandal involving migrants from Asia and Africa

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Published 10:16 AM

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and VANESSA GERA
Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — German government officials have held talks with their Polish counterparts asking them to clarify how many visas were issued in an illegal program in which some Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes. Poland has been shaken for weeks by reports that its consular sections issued about 250,000 visas to migrants from Asia and Africa since 2021 in return for bribes of several thousand dollars each. Poland is a member of the EU’s visa-free zone known as Schengen. Once those migrants arrived in Poland they could cross Europe’s borders freely including into neighboring Germany. A German governmental official said that Germay’s interior minister spoke by phone on Tuesday with her Polish counterpart.

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