Human TraffickingNews

Turkish citizen wanted for trafficking in migrants

Border guards issued regular signals to stop a VW Sharan car whose driver was suspected of carrying migrants from the border area. Following the control, it was found that the driver is a citizen of Turkey, who is in the asylum procedure on the Romanian territory, who was accompanied by ten compatriots, with identity cards issued by the Turkish authorities.

The 11 Turkish citizens were taken to the headquarters of the research sector.

During the checks, the border guards established that the persons in question, nine men and one woman, had fraudulently crossed the border from Serbia to Romania, on foot, on the green border, with the intention of reaching a Western European state with the support of the Turkish compatriot.

In the case of the border police, they are conducting investigations under the aspect of committing the crime of ” fraudulent crossing of the state border “, for the passengers of the car.