The Immigration Department and Police are trying to apprehend more illegal immigrants living in the country upon information provided by 13 Indian Nationals, who are detained at the Korovou Prison, after they were arrested yesterday in Nasinu.

The Immigration Department and Police have managed to arrest two locals who are alleged to be linked to the human trafficking scam uncovered yesterday with 13 illegal aliens and some locals taken into custody.

Director Immigration Nemani Vuniwaqa said one more illegal immigrant was arrested yesterday and a total of 13 Indian Nationals are detained at the Korovou Prison, who will soon be deported.

He said the visas these nationals are carrying are fake and the CID fraud unit of the Police Department is now handling the case.

Meanwhile, two Fiji citizens are to be deported from Canada after they were arrested in Canada's first human trafficking scam yesterday.

The Calgary Chronicle reports that the two women along with a Chinese national were found in a home in Edmonton, Western Canada after they were rescued from a home where they were being kept.

The report says the three were lured to Canada and then ended up working in a massage parlour. The newpaper says the women ate, drank and slept in the room they worked in and allegedly were expected to perform sexual acts 24 hours a day, seven days a week for several weeks.

Three people have been arrested in Edmonton in relation to the human trafficking scandal.