People-trafficking arrests in Britain yesterday

[24 June 2008]

Six people were arrested in Britain yesterday in one of the largest co-ordinated crackdowns on people-trafficking.

Europol said that 75 people were detained across Europe as 1,300 officers looked for a gang believed to have smuggled a large group of illegal immigrants into the European Union at between £8,000 and £9,500 each time. The gang was believed to have been arranging illegal immigrant travel from Afghanistan, China, Turkey, Bangladesh and Iraq.Dozens more suspects were arrested in Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden.

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