Government of the Republic of Serbia
With the support of two regional IPA projects on cooperation between police and prosecutors in the countries of the Western Balkans the organized criminal group for trafficking in human beings was broken up.
These two projects served as the support to the several month of investigation called KASHMIR conducted by the investigative teams of Serbia, Hungary and Austria together.
The Serbian police, that is, its Service for the Fight against Organized Crime, searched a number of apartments and other places in 13 locations in Belgrade, Kragujevac and Odzak used by a group of persons suspected of being members of an organized criminal group. Nine persons were arrested in this police action. In the same operation, four persons were arrested in Austria and three persons were arrested in Hungary for whom it was suspected that they belonged to the same criminal group for trafficking in human beings.
It is presumed that this group transferred over 400 migrants/refugees illegally from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea and Iraqi in the period from April to September 2015.The suspects were kept in the custody waiting for their trial on charges of participating in illegal border crossings and trafficking in human beings.
Source: europa.rs
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