Macedonia busts human smuggling ring

Police cracked down on an international human smuggling ring in a comprehensive regional operation, arresting 16.

Izvor: MAKFAX

Wednesday, 30.05.2007.

09:12

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Macedonia busts human smuggling ring

As many as 150 members of the special task forces took part in the busting operation, in addition to 100 regular police officers, deployed in two dozen teams.

All detainees are Macedonian citizens. During the search of their homes and other locations, the police found several passports, stamps and photographs; intended for making false passports and personal ID cards of other states; a handgun and other items.

The arrested are suspected of having smuggled over 100 migrants from Albania, Turkey, China, Pakistan and other Middle East countries.

"The price of their admission, producing personal documents and transfer to Greece totaled about 5.000 euros per person,” associate Interior Minister Ivo Kotevski said.

Four of the 16 detainees were reportedly in charge of organizing the migrant groups, and the others were responsible for providing accommodation, producing false documents and illegal transport.

Police are due to hand over the detainees to an investigative judge, once they complete the questioning procedure.

The operation, coordinated by the SECI Center in Bucharest, was conducted in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Austria.

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