A network of human trafficking of Cuban migrants will be tried before the Criminal Court of Corridors in Costa Rica at the beginning of January 2023, according to information published in local media.
At least 17 people will be tried for the alleged crime of illicit human trafficking, noted a report this weekend from the platform Costa Rica Today.
11 people will attend the trial as witnesses and its sessions are scheduled from January 9 to March 9.
This network was arrested in February 2020 and its members are accused of entering and removing migrants from that Central American country irregularly, from Cuba, Africa, Asia and Haiti, among other countries.
The case of the alleged crime of human trafficking began to be investigated in 2019, after intelligence operations to stop the network that operated in the southern area of Costa Rica.
This organization charged migrants $600 to transport them from the border with Panama to Peñas Blancas, the aforementioned media maintains.
It also states that according to judicial authorities of that country, the final destination of the migrants was the United States and the majority were of Cuban origin.
At the beginning of December, The authorities of Costa Rica together with those of Panama dismantled a network of trafficking of Cuban migrants in that Central American country.
The Costa Rican Professional Migration Police (PPM), together with Panamanian authorities, carried out the Binational Operation “FIRMEZA”, against an alleged migrant smuggling organization, reported in Facebook the General Directorate of Migration and Immigration (DGME) of the Central American country.
The agency also noted that the PPM raided three places and arrested three people who made up the criminal organization.
After the raids, irregular migrants from Panama, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, India and Sri Lanka were found.
The media also claimed that this criminal organization was dedicated to the illicit trafficking of migrants from India, Cuba and Nepal, who entered Costa Rica from Panama by air, in collaboration with Panamanian public officials.
In September of this year, the authorities of Costa Rica dismantled a gang that trafficked Cuban migrants on its way through Central America towards the United States.
The Immigration Police of the Central American country carried out fifteen raids in places near the border south with Panama and the northern border with Nicaragua, in which 21 people were detained in an operation carried out together with the National Police of Panama and the Organized Crime Prosecutor's Office of that country.
It states that the human trafficking network had its area of operations in Corredores, in the province of Puntarenas, bordering Panama, and in La Cruz de Guanacaste, bordering Nicaragua.
Cubans had to pay this network an amount that ranged between 14,000 and 22,000 dollars per person to be able to reach the final destination on the border with the United States.
Among the gang's victims were people from Yemen, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Angola, Mauritania and Senegal, as well as Haiti, Chile and Venezuela.
In that same month, the Uruguayan authorities also dismantled a network that captured Cuban migrants to transfer them to that South American country or with the purpose of entering the United States through crossing land borders.
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