{"id":65214,"date":"2024-06-27T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/26\/police-bust-gang-using-luxury-cars-to-smuggle-chinese-migrants-into-italy"},"modified":"2024-06-27T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:54:07","slug":"police-bust-gang-using-luxury-cars-to-smuggle-chinese-migrants-into-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65214","title":{"rendered":"Police bust gang using luxury cars to smuggle Chinese migrants into Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victims were made to pose as well off but once in Europe they were confined to workplaces and severely exploited<\/p>\n<p>Italian police have busted a trafficking network that used luxury cars to smuggle Chinese migrants into Italy before confiscating their passports and treating them like enslaved people.<\/p>\n<p>The smugglers had the migrants pose as \u201cunsuspecting Asian citizens, well-dressed, with little luggage, travelling in powerful and expensive cars driven by Chinese citizens who had lived in Italy for years and spoke Italian\u201d, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/26\/police-bust-gang-using-luxury-cars-to-smuggle-chinese-migrants-into-italy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims were made to pose as well off but once in Europe they were confined to workplaces and severely exploitedItalian police have busted a trafficking network that used luxury cars to smuggle Chinese migrants into Italy before confiscating their pass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3993,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,451,491,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-italy","category-migration","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65214\/revisions\/65215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}