Securiport Data Analytics Enable Authorities to Interdict Senegal-Based Human Trafficking Ring
Between December 10th, 2013 and January 15th, 2014, two passengers traveling on separate flights from the Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal were stopped at Washington-Dulles International Airport without the proper travel documents. Both passengers arrived in the U.S. from Dakar on a South African Airways flight just a few weeks apart. As a result of this critical security breach, the United States government threatened to suspend diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Senegal, and prohibit South African Airways flights from traveling to and from the country. U.S. authorities ordered South African Airways to identify the origin of the security breach and uncover how these two passengers were able to board flights to the U.S. without the proper documentation.