The Greek Coast Guard detained several members of an international migrant smuggling network on Friday suspected of sending illegally immigrants unnoticed to Italy.

The smugglers, including four Greek citizens, were captured when two buses brought 119 asylum seekers to the port of Katakolo, south of the Peloponnészos Peninsula, to sail along the Italian coasts.

According to the Coast Guard, the migrant smuggling network has been transporting people between Greece and Italy for months.

Unauthorized immigrants to Western Europe are trying to navigate or circulate in Greece on the basis of bilateral bailout agreements whereby asylum seekers who have been detained at the borders of other northern Member States can return to Greece once they have been registered.

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