Skopje, 24 December 2021 (MIA) – The Interior Ministry’s department in charge of suppressing organized and serious crime has pressed charges at the relevant Public Prosecutor’s Office against two Pakistani nationals, aged 27 and 29, suspected of migrant smuggling. According to the Interior Ministry, on 22 December 2021 police officers found some 40 migrants hiding in different buildings in the Kumanovo village of Gorno Konjare. Of these, 21 were from India, 15 from Syria, two from Pakistan and one each from Morocco and Turkey. Thee of the migrants uncovered were children. Police officers found that the two suspects organized the group and were supposed to help the migrants illegally cross the Macedonian-Greek border for a fee. They will appear in front of a judge on Friday, while the rest have been transferred to the migrant reception center.