Senior FIA officials said gangs were continuously sending people to Turkey from where they were pushed into the Greece using different land and river routes in a very miserable state of affairs.
The officials said the rackets were sending innocent people to Europe using land routes of Iran, Turkey and the Central Asian Republics. They said the FIA had busted many such gangs.
A senior FIA official said the rackets used to allure the jobless youth by offering a bright future in Europe from across the country. Mostly, they operated in the remote areas like the districts of Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad, Narowal, Gujarat, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Sheikhupura, Kasur, Khanewal, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan, etc, he said. The rackets also operate in the big cities.
The traffickers managed to arrange genuine visas of Turkey for their clients by portraying them as young businessmen or students to deceive the immigration authorities of both Pakistan and Turkey, he said, adding many immigration consultants were also involved in sending people to Greece on a job visa.
After reaching Turkey and Cyprus, the victims were kept in dingy houses and basements and later the racket transported them to Greece through different routes including crossing of river Evros, he said. He further said the rackets had also hired local residents who facilitated then in transporting people in local public transport of closed vans.
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