Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Albanian "students" in suspected trafficking scam

TIRANA, Albania -- Italian authorities on Sunday (May 10th) sent home 170 Albanians who spent four days in the port city of Trieste because of visa problems. The group of self-proclaimed "students" found themselves barred from entering Italy, the first stop in a planned Mediterranean trip, after the Hungarian Embassy in Tirana declared their Schengen visas invalid, only days after it had issued them. Investigators say this may have been a human trafficking scheme, as only 87 of the students were enrolled in universities.

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