The Attorney General’s Office reported yesterday that prosectors had ordered the detention of two members of a criminal gang whose members deliberately detained 263 illegal immigrants to extort ransom from their families.
Revealing the details of the case, the Attorney General’s Office said officers of the Oasis Criminal Investigation Service Branch established that 263 illegal immigrants were detained to force their families to pay 17,000 dollars for their release for each Somali immigrant, and 10,000 dollars for the release of every Eritrean immigrant.
The gang were also found to have deliberately coordinated illegal immigration operations that encroached on national borders and committed incidents of human trafficking. They also established premises for the purpose of detaining the liberty of victims and subjecting them to torture, cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment in order to induce their relatives into paying a ransom.
The investigator ordered the accused to be detained, pending their trial, and decided to pursue the rest of the gang’s members.
