Indian-Guatemalan Human Trafficking Ring Busted at Indira Gandhi International Airport

A South Asian-Central American human trafficking network has been dismantled. Four people were arrested this month at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport in India for smuggling people to the United States through Guatemala. The bust also solved the mystery of 105 Indian passports found in a piece of unclaimed baggage, which was seized from a Turkish Airlines flight in February 2011 at an one of IGI’s terminals.

The baggage belonged to Sawan Rajnikant Trivedi, a resident of Ahmedabad who was traveling on a Turkish Airlines flight from Guatemala. He was part of a network that was using the national airlines of Qatar, Turkey and the UAE to traffic people illegally to the U.S. through Guatemala. The illegal migrants were flown mostly from Delhi, Amritsar and Ahmedabad in India through Istanbul and then on to Guatemala. They later entered the U.S. illegally over land from Mexico, as explained in the India Times graphic below.

The trafficking gang would charge USD $17,000 to $34,000 for the journey from India to Guatemala, while up to USD $60,000 was charged for ensuring the entry of an illegal immigrants to the US. The network would even pay the expenses for attorneys, if a migrant was caught in the US and faced deportation.

Graphic and Photo: India Times

To read more:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/human-trafficking-racket-busted-arrested-passports-igi-airport-us/1/169888.html

http://www.timesnow.tv/Massive-global-trafficking-racket-busted/articleshow/4394224.cms

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