Ahmedabad: The Gujarat police, which questioned 45 Nicaraguan-bound passengers, have found one common factor, a big-time human trafficker who has spread a network of agents across districts in the state. These agents were charging anything between Rs 60 lakh and Rs 1.2 crore from individuals for sending them to the United States via the Mexico border.
CID (crime) officials said that by Saturday, they questioned 45 passengers forced to return from France who were on their way to Nicaragua. They were part of 303 Indian passengers who had boarded a chartered plane in Dubai to reach Nicaragua but were grounded midway by French authorities after they received a tip-off claiming human trafficking.
