SYDNEY: Five men from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan have been arrested and accused of facilitating the passage of up to 132 asylum-seekers boats in Australia’s largest-ever people-smuggling sting, police said on Thursday.
The men—an Iranian, 21, a Pakistani national, 46, and three Afghans aged 40, 34 and 33—were detained in a major nationwide operation culminating 12 months of work and seven separate probes into 132 voyages.
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