For over 6 years, authorities around Europe had been searching for the Albanian mastermind behind an enormous human smuggling business based in Belgium. The notorious human trafficker was finally arrested by the Greek police while trying to cross the Greek-Albanian borders.
The 51-year-old human smuggler was wanted by the Belgium police for being the head of an organized criminal group trafficking women for commercial sexual exploitation in many Belgian countries from 1998 to 2004. Moreover, the Albanian criminal is charged with identity documents forgery, which he sold to the women he was illegally smuggling into Belgium, and with the raping of one of his victims.
Police officers of Kakavia Police Station based near the Greek-Albanian borders tracked down the Albanian criminal while he was trying to enter Greece. The officers found out that an European arrest warrant was pending against the 51-year-old man and put handcuffs on him immediately. The man is now to be brought before an Ioannina court for the extradition proceedings from Greece to Belgium to start off.
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