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Libya migrant smuggling gang busted

Bangladeshi charged 6,000 euros a head

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Genoa, September 26 - Italian police on Wednesday busted a gang that smuggled migrants from Libya to Italy.
    The brains behind the operation, police said, was a Bangladeshi businessman who charged migrants 6,000 euros a head to get from Libya to Italy, and arranged for them to get humanitarian permits to reach Liguria.
    They were then obliged to work in the businessman's firms and pay to sleep in property he had leased, police said.
   

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