The National Immigration Agency (NIA) announced Tuesday that it has smashed a cross-border human trafficking ring, the largest in Asia, after over a year of cooperation with their counterparts in Hong Kong, Thailand, Britain and the United States. The NIA said it detained seven suspects and summoned seven others for questioning, all of whom have been handed over to the Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office. Ten other members of the ring were still at large. According to the NIA, the ring made more than NT$100 million (US$3.28 million) in profit from over 30 human trafficking cases, helping one to five illegals from China in each case to enter the United States, Canada, Britain or Holland. The ring racked up US$50,000 to US$70,000 for every stowaway they smuggled into these countries. Through advertisements on the Internet or in newspapers, the criminal ring recruited members to serve as middlemen who were responsible for traveling to Hong Kong or Bangkok, where they handed forged Taiwanese passports and boarding passes to the illegal Chinese intending to sneak into these Western countries with doctored documents, it said. Before traveling abroad on their missions, each member of the ring would receive some NT$60,000, which succeeded in attracting unscrupulous individuals looking for some quick and easy money, the NIA said. 