Italian authorities have reported six Pakistani citizens in Italy accused of exploiting at least 70 workers, who were given meager wages and forced to work in unseemly conditions to deliver advertising materials door to door.
Migrants exploited by their fellow countrymen in northern Italy were paid three euros per hour for 11-hour days to prune vines and harvest grapes, according to an investigation by carabinieri in Venice, Padua, and Rovigo. The probe led to four being placed under house arrest on Wednesday.
Italian authorities have dismantled a criminal organization that issued fraudulent work contracts to migrant workers. Over 200 fake documents were allegedly distributed over the course of two years.
Italian authorities have taken over a migrant hosting center in Naples because of overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions.
Italian authorities in Parma have arrested seven people on charges of aiding and abetting clandestine migration. The individuals are accused of having forged tax documents to help non-EU citizens needing to convert or renew residence permits and of having arranged transfers from Italy to other EU countries.
Eight people have been arrested on human trafficking charges as part of an operation jointly carried out by police forces in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, local media reported on Wednesday, December 18.
Italian authorities say they have identified two Gambian teens aged 16 and 18 as the drivers of a rubber dinghy carrying the 62 people saved by migrant rescue vessel Open Arms who arrived in Italy on November 26.
Three people are under investigation in Ferrara, Italy. They allegedly alerted the directors of migrant reception centers in the province when inspections were scheduled to take place and turned a blind eye to irregularities.
A new medical report into the death of asylum-seeker Oury Jalloh while in detention suggests he sustained significant injuries before his burnt body was found in a German prison cell in 2005.
Malta reportedly asked the Libyan coast guard to rescue a migrant boat in Maltese waters. The UN agency has said that this may be a violation of maritime laws.
Italian authorities have detained two migrants who were onboard Italian coast guard ship Bruno Gregoretti. The migrants are suspected of being the smugglers operating a boat on which the rescued migrants were travelling.
The Italian authorities have said that the mayor of the Calabrian town of Melito Porto Salvo and several individuals in the local administration have been placed under investigation as part of an inquiry into the management of a hotel used for migrant reception.