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The role and funding of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in the field of migration were the focus of a recent meeting between the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy, Vasilis Kikilias, and the Minister of Migration and Asylum, Makis Voridis, raising serious questions of transparency.

A Turkish national, the driver of a speedboat who allowed at least four migrants lacking travel documents to alight on the shore of Skandari, Kos island, has been arrested as a suspected human trafficker, police announced on Thursday.

Thirty three members of four NGOs arrested in a migrant trafficking ring are accused of a series of illegal activities, and will possibly also faces charges of espionage.