The operation took place across 44 countries and identified almost 1,500 victims. Read more at straitstimes.com.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – A huge operation targeting human traffickers across 44 countries has netted 212 suspects and identified almost 1,500 victims, many of them children, EU policing agency Europol said on Thursday.
The operation focused on “organised crime groups involved in trafficking in human beings, in particular child trafficking, sexual exploitation, forced criminality and forced begging,” it said in a statement. Some 8,644 flights were also monitored in the operation coordinated by Europol, Interpol and the EU border agency Frontex.
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