{"id":3066,"date":"2018-05-06T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2018-05-06T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T03:53:08","slug":"malaysia-police-busts-international-racket-smuggling-131-sri-lankans-to-australia-and-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/malaysia-police-busts-international-racket-smuggling-131-sri-lankans-to-australia-and-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Police busts international racket smuggling 131 Sri Lankans to Australia and New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Malaysia police intercepted a modified tanker carrying 131 Sri Lankans on Tuesday (May 1) morning, busting a human-smuggling ring that has been transporting illegal immigrants to Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The syndicate was using the maritime passage in the waters of Tanjung Gemuk in Kota Tinggi, Johor to transfer the immigrants, Channel News Asia reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a media release on Saturday, authorities said the tanker bearing the name Etra had been carrying 98 men, 24 women, four boys and five girls &#8211; all Sri Lanka citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A fishing boat used to transport the migrants to the vessel was also raided and the seven on board &#8211; three Indonesians and four Malaysians &#8211; were arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Authorities also nabbed five Malaysians involved in smuggling the migrants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;With these arrests, the Royal Malaysia Police has successfully foiled a large and cunning human smuggling syndicate,&#8221; said Police Chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Police Chief said the syndicate has been operating since mid-2017 and has international connections across Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia police intercepted a modified tanker carrying 131 Sri Lankans on Tuesday (May 1)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}