The fallout from the largest group repatriation has begun amid claims that Iraqis qualified for residency because of work 

An employment bureau set up to secure jobs for rejected Iraqi asylum seekers in a bid to allow them to stay in Denmark has said that four of the Iraqis sent home this morning already had jobs.

Asylbureau already had contracts in place for some asylum seekers when 22 left this morning. The bureau planned to employ them and secure further temporary work for them in the hopes they could gain temporary residency based on rules that require them to earn at least 31, 250 kroner per month.

Nine residence applications had been submitted on this basis and all were rejected.

Integration Minister Birthe Rønn Hornbech said she could not comment on individual cases, but said the forced repatriations will continue, adding that all cases have been thoroughly investigated.

Meanwhile, the airport worker who released photographs and video footage of the covert operation to send the Iraqis home from Odense airport is facing disciplinary action.

TV2 News gained access to the footage from Rolf Brems who was working in the control tower as the Iraqis were boarding the plane.

Police had kept the operation quíet from the public and press in the hopes of it passing off smoothly and succeeded as the details only emerged after the flight had taken off.

Airport Manager Erry Knudsen said that Brems should not have released images from areas of the airport that are off-limits to the public and is contacting a lawyer about the case.

Brems countered that the plane had been on standby all week at the airport allowing anyone ample opportunity to photograph it and was surprised at the management’s reaction.

‘The management themselves invited photographers into the control tower when the sailors from the Danica White were released and arrived in Denmark via our airport,’ Brems said.