Eight suspects related to the group were arrested, including the leader, Saifullah Al-Mamun, who was born in Bangladesh and was living in Brazil. He and his group were smuggling people from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan into Brazil, and then to the US.
The group would charge people roughly $12,524 to be brought to the United States.
The police also froze 42 bank accounts it says were used by the group to finance their activities.
