January 27, 2022

17:01

Gabriel Abreu and Priscila Peixoto – from Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – After an approach made on BR-174, highway that connects Manaus to Boa Vista, on Wednesday, 26, the Federal Highway Police (PRF) identified a group of foreigners from Nepal and Nigeria, which was taken to the headquarters of the Federal Police (PF). The suspicion is that six people from Nepal and five from Nigeria are in the capital of Amazonas in a situation of human trafficking.

According to the federal highway police officer Guilherme Villar, the officers were doing a routine inspection when they approached a cab with a Brazilian driver who was transporting citizens from Nepal, a country in South Asia, located between India and Tibet. The passengers did not have documents that allow them to stay in Brazil.

“During an approach in the morning, around 9:30 in the morning, a cab was stopped in which it was observed that inside there were citizens of Nepali origin. We requested the documentation and found that they did not have permission to enter the country, so some information was extracted from them during a conversation and we realized that there were some indications that led us to believe that, in theory, we would have set up a crime of human trafficking”, said the inspector.

After the approach, the police discovered that other immigrants were in a hotel in the south-central zone of Manaus.

“Upon this they were taken to the PF, we managed to find out the location of the other three immigrants that came to the country with them and we proceeded to meet them. There, we managed to approach five more Nigerian immigrants in the same hotel and they were sent, now, to the PF for administrative and legal procedures”, explained the police officer.

The group and the driver were taken to the Federal Police headquarters for the investigations to identify the gang leaders. “In the passport there was no visa to enter the country and there was no other type of documentation. At first they said they came to work, then they said they came for a walk. The information contradicts each other and everything together leads us to believe that an illicit act is taking place”, said the police officer.

The case will be investigated by the Federal Police.