Georgian sentenced to 290 years in prison in Greece

Three members of a migrant trafficking ring were handed prison sentences ranging from 36 to 290 years in Greece.

According to the case file, the three suspects were involved in 9 trafficking operations in which they illegally transferred migrants from Turkey to Thessaloniki and Athens from October 2016 to June 2017.

Their activity was revealed after a car accident last April in the town of Iasmos, in which an Iranian migrant was killed.

The ringleader, a Georgian national, was sentenced to 290 years in prison and a Greek national received a 69-year sentence. A third member of the gang, a Moldavian, was handed a 36-year sentence which was added to an 85-year sentence he received from a separate court in Thrace as the driver in the fatal car accident in Iasmos, Ekathimerini reported.