The Stabilization Support Apparatus said it had succeeded in dismantling an international criminal network specializing in organizing illegal immigration trips, explaining that the network operates offices in Bangladesh, which send immigrants to Libya through Benina International Airport in exchange for financial payments.
The immigrants are then transported to the capital, Tripoli, and housed in accommodations in preparation for smuggling them across the sea. The Apparatus added that the security operation resulted in the arrest of three members of the network — one Libyan national and two Bangladeshis.
The suspects admitted to preparing a group of 17 migrants for transfer to the city of Zuwara, where the head of the criminal network, a Libyan national, was waiting to smuggle them across the sea in “death boats” toward Europe. It noted that the necessary legal measures were taken against the suspects, and they were referred to the public prosecutor, who ordered their detention for six days pending investigation.
