The Blacklist

Chapter 358: Fighting Illegal Immigration Gangs
On October 10, Monday, after work, Elizabeth brought SER a new blacklist target provided by Reddington - an emerging human trafficking group!

"Two days ago, a smuggling boat sank two miles from the South Carolina coastline, killing 129 people... and more than a dozen people were rescued after being washed ashore!" Elizabeth introduced the situation. "Reddington said that this was the work of a newly emerged human trafficking organization. He only knows that its headquarters is in Europe, but he doesn't know the details yet. He is also looking for clues..."

Donald curled his lips and said, "Is this organization's business affecting Reddington's business? Is Reddington trying to use us to clean up his competitors?"

Elizabeth was amused and explained: "Reddington does have some smuggling business, but it does not involve human trafficking. On the contrary, he hates it...

"Tang, you should remember four years ago, when SER was not officially established, one of the cases we handled involved a human trafficking group. It was the fake philanthropist Campo that Lao Lei exposed and wanted to kill!"

Donald thought about it and remembered that there was indeed such a case, so he nodded, agreeing with Elizabeth's statement. But after thinking about it, he said, "It is difficult to find this human trafficking group in Europe alone. Does Lao Lei have any other ideas?"

Elizabeth said, "Old Lei said that we can let Dumby investigate this case because he knows something about smuggling." As she spoke, she looked at Dumby on the side.

"Well, I do know a little bit about it." Dunby nodded and said, "Tang, can I go over there?"

Donald thought about it, nodded in agreement, and asked, "Aram, have you found out the confessions of those surviving stowaways? Where did they leave from?"

"Oh, I found it!" Aram said as he looked at the information on the computer. "According to the information sent by the South Carolina State Police to the FBI, the route of these illegal immigrants started from Greece."

"Okay, let's go to Greece!" Donald decided.

Before Donald took SER and his agents to Europe, he greeted Carrie, who told them to be careful and call back immediately if they needed support.

After SER left, Carrie was a little worried, so she called Tom and asked him to send a group of people from Halcyon Shield to Greece secretly, not to worry about solving the case, but to focus on protecting Elizabeth and her group... well, especially to pay attention to Dumby's safety! -
From Washington to Greece, even if you fly the shorter Arctic route, it still takes nearly 650 hours at the speed of the Gulfstream G0.9 (1100 Mach = 13 km/h), and you have to fly east through seven time zones!
At 10 o'clock on Monday morning, Donald, Elizabeth, Nawabi, Demby, Alam and Brian, who had just joined the team, a group of eight people took off from Washington. When they arrived in Athens, it was already six o'clock on Tuesday morning local time!
The long flight made everyone very tired, so they first checked into the hotel that had been booked long ago, rested for the whole morning, and started working in the afternoon.

After lunch, the four members of Demby and Brian's team left the hotel separately and went to inquire about the news through their own channels; Aram and Nawabi set up a contact center in the hotel room to ensure everyone's communication. Donald was still a little worried about this matter, so he asked Elizabeth to contact Kerry in Washington...

At this time, it was just dawn in Washington. Carrie, who received the call, told Donald not to worry, Dumby would definitely find the clue, so there was no need to worry! -
Facts have proved that Carey's judgment is correct. Dembe is very familiar with the rules and code words of smuggling, and he easily found out that the smuggling channel to the United States is now controlled by an Irish gang. The leader is Arthur Kilgano, who lives in Bulgaria; however, there are reports that Arthur has retired and the one in power now is his son Colin, who has a bad reputation and is said to be cruel!
In the evening, the four members of Brian's team also returned to the hotel. They found out that the situation was similar, but not as detailed as that of Dumby.

After connecting with Washington, Kerry asked Abby to check the situation of Arthur Kilgano and found that he had considerable influence in Bulgaria. They would cause a lot of trouble if they went directly into the country to arrest him, and even come into direct conflict with the local government! Instead of wasting time communicating through diplomatic channels, it is better to find another way.

Dembe suggested that he could disguise himself as a stowaway and find the local human traffickers, because Colin now controlled the smuggling route. As long as he could get on the boat, he would be able to understand how it operated and get close to its core personnel!
Donald, Elizabeth and others disagreed with this because the danger was too great and they didn't want Dumby to take the risk!

However, Dembe was very persistent, because he felt that since joining SER, everyone had taken good care of him, but he had not made any contribution to the team. He saw this as an opportunity to use his advantage of being familiar with the gang rules to find evidence of the smuggling group for the team. Although it was dangerous, he thought it was worth it!
The four members of Bryan's group who joined SER later were also eager to make a contribution. After discussing it, they proposed that Omar and Dembe, who were also black, should act together so that they could take care of each other.

Faced with their insistence, Donald agreed to the plan and asked Aram to install a denture with a locator for Dembe to ensure that they knew where the two were going.

Elizabeth also informed Carrie, who stayed at the post office, of this situation.

After learning about this situation, Carrie felt uneasy, so she took Gina to prepare, rushed to the airport and went to Greece.
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On Wednesday afternoon, after each paying the human traffickers 3,000 euros, Dembe and Omar were put on a container truck and embarked on their "smuggling" journey.

There were five container trucks on the road together. Assuming that there were 30 stowaways on each truck, there were 150 people this time, enough to fill a stowaway boat!
Donald and others who provided logistical support followed the positioning signal and drove on the road, tracking the enemy all the way, but they closed the distance to several kilometers.

The convoy drove all the way from the highway into Macedonia north of Greece and entered a warehouse area guarded by armed personnel and with frequent vehicles coming in and out.

After Donald and others made inquiries, they found out that this was a transit station for import and export trade between the two countries. Many legitimate companies transferred goods here. They inferred that the criminal group was taking advantage of this situation to cover up illegal smuggling activities.

In this case, they could only choose to wait and see where the convoy would go next? But just an hour later, they suddenly lost Dunby's tracking signal!
(End of this chapter)