Benghazi Security Directorate managed to dismantle a human smuggling network to Italy that includes suspects of Libyan, Sudanese and Bangladeshi nationalities.
The Directorate said in a statement that after receiving information about a gang that practices fraud and defrauding expatriate workers and smuggling people to Italy, specifically by sea, with sums of money amounting to 7,000 dinars per person in exchange for their transportation, pointing out that some of them are transferred and some are defrauded. .
With the intensification of searches and investigations, the identity of one of the persons involved in the gang formation, a 27-year-old Sudanese national, was identified. He is in charge of receiving sums of money from expatriate workers. An elaborate ambush was prepared for him, seized, and transferred to the Directorate headquarters, according to the statement.
The accused stated during the investigations that he received sums of money from expatriate workers, specifically Sudanese and Bangladeshi nationals, and handed them over to a Libyan person who was being searched for, so that a specific day is set for their the migrants’ exit by sea to Italy on a fishing boat, it pointed out.
Coordination took place with one of the expatriate workers to lure the members of this network. Five people were seized, one of whom was Libyan, two Sudanese, and two Bangladeshi. The boat used in smuggling operations was also seized.
The defendants confessed to what was attributed to them and stated that departure for Italy by sea is carried out from the shores of the Qanfouda and Dariana, east and west of Benghazi. They also reported that they had undertaken more than 20 trips in the same way, and all legal measures were taken against them and referred to the Public Prosecution.