A/HRC/35/33 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also helps ensure efficient crossborder cooperation to deal with trafficking in persons through its Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, who assists with capacitybuilding and policy guidance. 36. In addition, labour inspectors play a key role in uncovering situations of workplace exploitation. Networks such as the International Association of Labour Inspection and organizations such as the ILO, which has a labour administration and inspection programme, help facilitate cooperation among inspectors, exposing cross-border cases of trafficking in persons.39 37. Several cross-border operations have successfully disrupted trafficking in persons. For example, an INTERPOL-led operation in South and Central America with support from 25 countries led to the arrest of over 130 people, the dismantling of several organized criminal networks and the rescue of over 2,700 victims. 40 The operation utilized preparatory training workshops, INTERPOL databases and coordinated checks at several South American airports. It led to both the closure of an adoption agency implicated in the trafficking in children and the arrest of company owners who had instituted slave-like practices in the Plurinational State of Bolivia. 38. In another operation, conducted in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and supported by INTERPOL and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), 48 children were rescued and 25 people arrested for exploiting the children in the cocoa and mining sectors. 41 Prior to the rescue, IOM and INTERPOL had developed operational plans and conducted training on how to provide proper assistance to the victims. Specialist officers from the INTERPOL Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation unit, hundreds of law enforcement officers and civil society organizations were involved in the operation. 39. The investigation and prosecution of Kronos Sanitärservice GMBH and N.V. Carastel Motorway Services (now Auto-Grill) in Belgium is a useful example of a crossborder trafficking investigation that clearly implicated business entities. 42 Kronos, a German company, had recruited workers in different countries to provide cleaning services for Carastel in Belgium. Labour inspectors discovered that the workers had been subject to extremely harsh work conditions, sparking an investigation. After noticing irregularities in the workers’ German employment forms, the Belgian investigative judge sent a rogatory commission, made up of Belgian police and a labour inspector, to Germany, where there was an ongoing investigation into the same issues. Constructive cooperation between the Belgian and German investigators led to the successful prosecution of both companies and several individuals for human trafficking. 40. The importance of civil society and the media can be seen in cases involving trafficking in persons in South-East Asia. Following investigative reports by several organizations uncovering the use of trafficked workers in the fishing industry, Indonesia initiated prosecutions against Thai employees of an Indonesian company. 43 The Government of Thailand cooperated by sending a multidisciplinary delegation to Indonesia 39 40 41 42 43 10 See ILO, “Labour Inspection and Undeclared Work in the EU” (2013). Available from www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---lab_admin/documents/publication/ wcms_220021.pdf. See www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2016/N2016-098. See www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2015/N2015-085. Decision available in French from www.unodc.org/res/cld/case-law-doc/traffickingpersonscrimetype/ bel/2012/case_no__20123925_html/BEL030-Case_No._2012-3925.pdf. See also “Corporate Crimes Principles” (footnote 3 above), pp. 5-7. See “Corporate Crimes Principles” (footnote 3 above), pp. 37-38. See also Environmental Justice Foundation, Sold to the Sea: Human Trafficking in Thailand’s Fishing Industry (London, 2013); and Kate Hodal et al., “Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK”, Guardian, 10 June 2014, Available from www.theguardian.com/globaldevelopment/2014/jun/10/supermarket-prawns-thailand-produced-slave-labour.