PARIS, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A network to smuggle migrant Chinese has been shut down in a cooperative effort by police in China and France, a report said.
The immigrants were smuggled into Italy, Spain and Luxembourg on boats and officials said each illegal immigrant paid $15,000 to nearly $19,000, the state-run Xinhau news agency reported Friday.
The French Immigration Ministry reported several members of the Chinese network were arrested in Paris. Several illegal immigrants were arrested in a sweep last month.
"I congratulated the teams ... for dismantling an important network of illegal immigration from China to Italy, Spain and Luxembourg, whose principal organizers were based in Paris and Shanghai," said Eric Besson, the French Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Solidarity Development. UPI
