"Humanitarian Aid" Organization's People-Smuggling

thirty members of the Greek NGO Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI) were arrested for their involvement in a people-smuggling network that has been operating on the island of Lesbos since 2015. According to a statement released by Greek police, as a result of the investigation that led to the arrests, "The activities of an organised criminal network that systematically facilitated the illegal entry of foreigners were fully exposed."

Among the activities uncovered were forgery, espionage and the illegal monitoring of both the Greek coastguard and the EU border agency, Frontex, for the purpose of gleaning confidential information about Turkish refugee flows. The investigation also led to the discovery of an additional six Greeks and 24 foreign nationals implicated in the case.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12960/greece-people-smuggling

https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/goodwill-ambassadors-held-in-greece-for-illegally-aiding-migrants/