Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique’s National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) on Tuesday detained an individual allegedly involved in human trafficking.
According to SERNIC spokesperson João Adriano, cited by the Portuguese News Agency Lusa, the individual was arrested at Maputo International Airport, when he was trying to board a plane with 16 men he had recruited in the central province of Sofala.
He intended to take the 16 men to Vietnam, at the behest of a businessman of Chinese origin.
“The person we have arrested met the Chinese businessman in the past when he worked for him in Sofala. The two exchanged contacts and, in February, this Chinese individual contacted the citizen, asking him to recruit 17 people to work in Vietnam, but he managed to recruit only 16”, Adriano said.
He added that “the accused received money from the Chinese citizen’s son, who was in Tete province in order to pay for the issuing of passports and visas for those interested in the opportunity to work in a paper factory in Vietnam.”
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