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France busts South Asian migrant trafficking ring, arrests 26 and seizes $12m”

French authorities arrested 26 people and seized 11 million euros ($12 million) as they smashed a migrant trafficking ring suspected of bringing several thousand people from South Asia into France, border police told AFP on Thursday.

Charging between 15,000 and 26,000 euros per person, the traffickers are suspected of having smuggled several thousand people from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal into France since September 2021, the force said.

Authorities estimate the network generated several billion euros in illegal profits, which were laundered through construction companies, gold trafficking and informal transfers of money back to South Asia.

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