Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Trafficking Minors into Costa Rica

China's state media, along with the Tico Times, reported that 300 Chinese minors were illegally brought into Costa Rica. The majority of these Chinese people were under the age of 18.

The Costa Rican Embassy in Beijing was the first to notice that there were an unusual amount of visas applications coming from minors. The minors used flawed documents and claimed that they were trying to meet up with their parents, of whom were supposedly living in Central America. After investigation, they came to find that the parents were still living in China.

Antonio Burgués, Costa Rican Ambassador to China said, “cooperation (between the two countries) has been excellent on the issue of immigration."

The two suspects that were mainly involved in this operation have confessed, although, no names have been released yet.

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