According to Nestor Goubel, the group is led by a woman and the police became aware of the case, through a complaint, noting that the suspects were involved in the abduction of a five-year-old child last month in the Prenda district, municipality from Luanda.
"According to information, the minor's mother opportunely participated in the case, and the Public Prosecutor's Office issued the competent arrest warrants, whose criminal proceedings are taking place at the SIC [Criminal Investigation Service]", said the spokesman for the provincial command of the Luanda police.
During the investigation, the police learned that, through an accomplice, the accused took the minor to the province of Zaire and tried to sell him for six million kwanzas. The operation was aborted due to police intervention.
According to Nestor Goubel, the crime has been solved and the child has been handed over to the family, stressing that "the Police are attentive" and praising the population's culture of denunciation.
"The appeal is always in the direction of denunciations, that they be attentive to the signs, to the disappearance of children and act like the mother of the girl who, in due course, proceeded to participate for the opening of the process and for afterwards all this work of police", he stressed.
On human trafficking, the director of the National Children's Institute (INAC), Paulo Kalesi, told Lusa that they have received a considerable number of disappearances of minors.
"And whenever we receive an identical report that allegedly a child has been kidnapped, that a child has disappeared, our direct link is the police, who have to investigate", he stressed.
Paulo Kalesi also explained that, in the last two years, 50 suspected trafficked children were registered, all of which were sent to the police for investigation.
