Insights from Sr Eilís Coe
Belfast
“Human traffickers exploit Irish and foreign victims in Ireland.”
Failure to act
‘Unduly lenient’
Modern Day Slavery
Ukraine “leading surrogacy hub”
Much cheaper than Channel crossing
40 trafficked in a month
French Border Police, Spanish National police and Europol have cooperated to bust a criminal enterprise engaged in forging and distributing fake IDs and EU travel documents. After raiding houses across France and Spain, 17 individuals were arrested – three in France and 14 in Spain. Cash, fake IDs and counterfeiting equipment was seized during the […]
Two Georgian nationals have been convicted of large scale human trafficking, though one was spared prison because she had a teenage son. Vakjtang Jokhadze, 48, and Sophia Grdzelishili, 46, are divorced but still live together. Both acted as a “distribution network” to provide fake driving licences and ID cards from EU countries to Georgian illegal […]