Migrants trying to reach European soil (AP/Santi Palacios)
A Palestinian who ran a multi-million dollar smuggling ring was sent to prison by a Greek court.
By: AP
A Greek court in the northern city of Thessaloniki has convicted a Palestinian of running a major migrant-smuggling ring and sentenced him to 13 years in prison.
Judges ruled Tuesday that 29-year-old Jamal Owda was active during the height of Europe’s immigration crisis, from July 2014 to December 2015 — when he was arrested in Britain following a Greek request.
Migrants allegedly paid the ring 1,500 euros ($1,900) each to be taken from Greece to Serbia by road, at a time before Balkan countries closed their borders to check migratory flows.
The traffickers’ annual revenues exceeded 10 million euros ($12 million).
Owda, who denied the charges, was extradited to Greece last year after British authorities rejected his asylum application.
Another 22 people have earlier been convicted of belonging to the group.
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