Europol has arrested 8 dangerous migrant smugglers operating across the EU.[/B]
The OTF Pathfinder operation, which involved police forces from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Germany, Romania, Serbia and the Netherlands, involved a total of 39 investigations.
As part of the operation:
8 "high-value targets" were arrested and three with European arrest warrants (2 in Austria, 7 in Germany, one in Hungary and one in Romania)
127 arrests of intermediaries were made (63 in Austria, 19 in Germany, 15 in Hungary, 25 in Romania, 4 in the Netherlands and one in Serbia)
916 incidents of migrant trafficking were detected (600 in Austria, 262 in Germany, 26 in Hungary, 22 in Romania and 6 in the Netherlands)
151 searches of houses were carried out (37 in Austria, 70 in Germany, 17 in Hungary, 25 in Romania and 2 in the Netherlands)
Assets worth a total of around 900 were seized.000 euros.
The investigation revealed that traffickers and intermediaries facilitated the illegal movement of at least 10,000 migrants into the EU, mainly of Afghan, Pakistani and Syrian origin.
The traffickers charged between 4,000 and 10.000 euros, despite the fact that they smuggled and hosted migrants in extremely unfavourable and often life-threatening conditions.
Source: protothema.gr
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