Pay €25,000 for visa: Indian firm under probe after Spain's Algerian migration crisis

Spanish investigators are examining whether visa appointment and document-processing companies helped a network prioritise applicants who paid bribes.Indian company BLS International has been drawn into a Spanish National Court investigation with links to alleged visa fraud network at Spain’s consulate in Algiers.The probe, led by Judge María Tardón, was expanded to examine the role of companies handling visa appointments and document processing, including BLS, which is contracted by Spain’s Foreign Ministry, as reporte dby Spanish news outlet The Objective.The investigation began following “official communications” from the Spanish Embassy in Algeria, which alerted authorities to a network allegedly “profiting through the fraudulent issuance of Schengen visas”. Judicial sources said the n