UAE foils plots to smuggle 19 people across its borders

Abu Dhabi: The competent authorities have foiled two cross-border people-smuggling operations, one involving the illegal entry of infiltrators into the country and the other an attempt to smuggle an individual wanted by security authorities out of the country.

Those involved were apprehended and referred to the Public Prosecution.

The first operation began after authorities received information about a plot to smuggle 18 Asian nationals into the country illegally in separate groups, with the assistance of a national of a Gulf country.