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Three Turkish citizens investigated for migrant trafficking, one is remanded in custody

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Three Turkish citizens, one of whom is under preventive arrest for 30 days, are investigated by the western Timisoara Border Police, for migrant trafficking, respectively complicity in migrant trafficking, being involved in the transport of a group of 37 foreign citizens who intended to leave Romania, hidden in a truck, write Agerpres.

The migrants, who had entered the country legally, are citizens of Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, aged between 20 and 45. They said they boarded the freight vehicle to move towards the Hungarian border. Extending the investigations in question, a BMW car registered in Austria, in which were two Turkish citizens, was stopped in traffic.

Suspecting that they may be involved in migrant trafficking, they were taken to the Timisoara Border Police headquarters for investigations, where it was established that the two men had the role of forerunner.

In this case, investigations are carried out under the coordination of a prosecutor with the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Timisoara Court for migrant trafficking against the Turkish citizen, the driver of the truck, for which the judge of rights and freedoms of the Timis Court ordered preventive detention for a period of 30 days. At the same time, the two Turkish citizens who had the role of forerunner are being investigated for committing the crime of complicity in migrant trafficking.

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