Mbanza kongo: A network of four Angolan citizens involved in the trafficking of illegal immigrants was dismantled on Friday in the city of Mbanza Kongo in the Zaire province. Superintendent Lus Bernardo, the spokesperson of the National Police, told ANGOP.
According to Angola Press News Agency, Superintendent Lus Bernardo stated that the individuals were apprehended at the Bela Vista market. They were caught assisting a citizen from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in traveling to Luanda in exchange for 400 US dollars and a mobile phone.
Bernardo further explained that the group's arrest was the outcome of a micro-operation conducted by officers from the Zaire Provincial Command of the National Police's Department of Investigation of Criminal Offenses (DIIP).
Additionally, on Thursday, police in Mbanza Kongo arrested a Congolese woman accused of trafficking foreigners in irregular migratory situations. She was detained at a taxi stand while attempting to transport three DRC immigrants to Luanda, charging 110,000 kwanzas per person.