Suspected child trafficker held at Helsinki Airport

Finnish Border Guard arrested a suspected human trafficker and recovered two children at the Helsinki Airport recently, said a press on Friday.

The Border Guard officials believed that the Zimbabwean woman, arrested on April 29 from the airport, is guilty of arranging illegal entry and suspected of attempting to arrange the illegal entry of one 7-year-old and one 14-year-old girls to Ireland via Finland.

The woman and the girls had flown to Finland from Russia and they would have taking a connecting flight to Ireland.

The three were taken in for closer questioning because the explanations given by the woman for the purpose of the journey and her relationship with the girls were contradictory.

During the inspection, documents were found hidden in the woman’s luggage which gave reason to suspect the woman and the girls of travelling with fake identities.

The Finnish Border Guard suspects that the woman had not met the girls before the start of the journey.

The pre-trial investigation is still in progress, and the Finnish Border Guard is continuing its investigation of the case.