ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has dismantled a criminal ring which trafficked dozens of Nepali men, beat them and forced them to work in farms across the country in degrading conditions with little or no payment, police said on Thursday.

Police have charged 17 people, including 10 Pakistani nationals, with participating in the gang which operated at least since November 2024. Another 100 people have been arrested for lacking legal residence permits.

The men were working and living in “unsanitary and degrading conditions”, police said in a statement. The European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol assisted in the operation and will expand the investigation into other countries.

One of the suspected ring members, a 29-year-old Nepali woman, was tasked with advertising the jobs in Greece an

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