Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou has said that the number of prosecutions in connection with human trafficking offences had increased, and at the same time the police have tightened their operational controls.

In 2013 the police filed charges against 34 persons, in 2014 against 50 persons, while during the first months of 2015 this number rose to 64, Nicolaou said, addressing a conference organised in Cyprus in the framework of the “Embracing” project aiming at combating human trafficking.

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