Egyptian baby-smuggling ring probed by RCMP

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"Canadian diplomatic officials in Cairo and the RCMP were probing up to a dozen cases of Egyptian infants being smuggled to Canada in a baby-trafficking ring, according to a U.S. embassy cable published by WikiLeaks.

The network may also have been used as a way to smuggle Egyptian babies to the United States via Canada, said the September 2009 American embassy cable published this week by WikiLeaks.

On Sept. 17, 2009, an Egyptian judge handed out two- to five-year jail sentences to 11 members of a baby-smuggling ring that used false birth registration papers to bring children to the United States."

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