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Human smugglers to face prosecution

  • 2009-02-12
  • TBT Staff in cooperation with BNS
RIGA - The Latvian State Border Guard has asked law enforcement authorities to prosecute a gang of 13 people for allegedly smuggling nearly 30 people into the country.

The smuggling gang is accused of bringing 27 Syrian and three Chinese nationals across the border from July to September last year.

Kristine Petersone, a spokeswoman for the State Border Guard, told BNS that the suspected human traffickers included 12 citizens of Latvia and one Lebanese national.

In late August 2008, criminal investigators from the Latvian State Border Guard carried out an operation in which the first members of the gang of human traffickers were arrested for smuggling three Chinese citizens over the Latvian-Russian border.


 

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