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December 20, 2019. Established a criminal association aimed at facilitating illegal immigration, rooted in Italy - in the provinces of Lucca and Milan - and in Romania. Nine people arrested by the State Police of Lucca, coordinated by the Dda of Florence, in execution of an order of the Gip of the Court: 6 citizens of Sri Lanka and three Romanians.

The association was specialized in the trafficking of illegal immigrants from Asian countries (Sri Lanka and Bangladesh) on the Romania - Hungary - Italy route. The leader of the association lived in Lucca. The illegal immigrants entered Romania with a tourist visa and arrived in Italy through the border crossing points of Trento and Gorizia, on tarpaulin trucks, hidden among the goods regularly transported.

Who was not able to pay the full amount of the trip (from Romania to Italy equal to 3 500 euros, from Sri Lanka to Italy, through Romania, to 6/7 thousand euros), was kept in a farmhouse and returned to relatives when the payment arrived on the association's accounts with credit institutions in Sri Lanka