A 46-year-old man has been remanded in custody until 24 November after being charged with violating Denmark's immigration law by staying illegally in the country for 11 years, Copenhagen Police said, according to Danish Police.
The man was arrested on Tuesday at his workplace in Lyngby following a lengthy investigation carried out with the Portuguese authorities. Police said he is charged with obtaining Portuguese citizenship by fraud.
He originally held Bangladeshi citizenship and has stayed in Denmark since 2015, meaning he has worked illegally for 11 years. He was brought before a judge in the Dommervagten at Copenhagen City Court.
In a separate case, police arrested four Albanian men aged 21 to 49 on Monday afternoon over a drug centre on Amager. A search turned up around 400 grams of cocaine, 450 grams of ketamine, a smaller
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