According to EU Helpers, a team of more than 350 federal police officers conducted the searches as part of their investigation.

Five arrest warrants were issued, and three people were found in the northern city of Stade and two more in the western town of Gladbeck, according to InfoMigrants. The five people detained by the police were all Syrians who had previously lived in Germany, according to the police.

These Syrian immigrants are said to have paid the people smugglers up to €7,000 in exchange for their unauthorized admission into Germany. The culprits then bought gold with this illegally obtained cash.

Investigators seized a number of things during the investigation, including mobile phones, SIM cards, gold valued at about €220,000, and a sizeable sum of cash totaling €16,000.

According to the investigations conducted last year, the illegal immigrants from Syria were initially transported to Greece by plane, where their countrymen gave them authentic passports. Then, they were sent to Germany through a variety of ways of transportation.

According to reports, the main entrance point for the alleged operation's leadership was the Balkan route. According to a report in the German tabloid Spiegel, the migrants then traveled to Germany on foot, by car, and by truck.

Furthermore, these police raids occurred in the midst of a heated discussion in Brandenburg over asylum policy, where administrative districts support a harsher approach to the asylum process.

Authorities in Germany discovered a considerable increase in unauthorized border crossings last month, with 320 migrants attempting to enter the nation through the southern Brandenburg-Poland border.

As a result of these unauthorized border crossings, Berlin police headquarters said that 14 smugglers had been apprehended. The majority of those trying to enter Germany with this recent influx were Syrian nationals.

Authorities discovered 24 migrants from Syria, two from Yemen, and two juveniles during the operation. These people were put in danger by being transferred in the cargo hold without the proper security procedures.

At the Cottbus South exit of the A15, authorities detained 42 people from Turkey, including 19 children, in a connected incident. Six alleged smugglers were detained as a result of this operation; one was from Turkey and the other five were from Georgia.