Dutch-Nigerian activist arrested for people smuggling

Radio Netherlands

7 March 2011

Dutch-Nigerian activist arrested for people smuggling

The Public Prosecutor's Office says the suspicions against Mr Ofehe first arose when he was at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to pick up a man and a woman arriving on a flight from Nigeria. The man was detained by immigration officials because the woman was travelling on a passport in another person’s name.

The woman later told the police that she had been threathened by a so-called "madam" from Italy using voodoo practices to coerce her into working as a prostitute. Later she filed a complaint for human trafficking. Presumably, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office,  human traffickers had intended to force her into prostitution in Italy.