Italian police on Wednesday
executed arrest warrants for 13 people suspected of being
involved in human-trafficking ring, sources said.
The suspects were detained in the northern provinces of
Monza, Milan, Brescia and Venice.
The 'Transitus' probe that led to Wednesday's operation
documented 20 trips in just one month for the illegal entry of
around 100 migrants, the sources said.
Police were unable track down three of the 13 suspects in
Italy, sources said.
The officers seized cars used for take the migrants from
Italy to northern Europe.
Six members of the gang are Egyptian, three Albanian, two
Romanian, one Syrian and one Brazilian and they are aged between
26 and 25 and had permits to reside in Italy.
The probe was opened in 2014 thanks to evidence given by
an Egyptian who had turned down an approach to work for the gang
as a driver, sources said.
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