Three charged in people smuggling case
Three men have been charged for arranging to have 49 foreign citizens smuggled into Sweden.
The smuggling victims were allegedly taken across the European continent through Denmark and then over the Öresund bridge to Skåne in southern Sweden.
The suspects are said to have cooperated with accomplices in France, according to charges filed on Thursday in Malmö District Court.
The victims who asked for help to enter Sweden each paid 10,000 kronor ($1,515) to the smugglers.
The men are charged with organizing and carrying out people smuggling.
Two other men were also charged with the latter crime.
According to the charges, the men are suspected of conducting their people smuggling operations in cooperation with several different groups, including with a man who has already been convicted in Denmark, as well as another man not included in the charges.
The charges cover seven separate instances of people smuggling which took place between February 13th and June 16th of this year.
One of the men is also charged with serious forgery crimes. At his home police found a USB-memory stick with digital images of Arabic-language identity papers bearing official stamps.
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The smuggling victims were allegedly taken across the European continent through Denmark and then over the Öresund bridge to Skåne in southern Sweden.
The suspects are said to have cooperated with accomplices in France, according to charges filed on Thursday in Malmö District Court.
The victims who asked for help to enter Sweden each paid 10,000 kronor ($1,515) to the smugglers.
The men are charged with organizing and carrying out people smuggling.
Two other men were also charged with the latter crime.
According to the charges, the men are suspected of conducting their people smuggling operations in cooperation with several different groups, including with a man who has already been convicted in Denmark, as well as another man not included in the charges.
The charges cover seven separate instances of people smuggling which took place between February 13th and June 16th of this year.
One of the men is also charged with serious forgery crimes. At his home police found a USB-memory stick with digital images of Arabic-language identity papers bearing official stamps.
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