A team of officials from Tamil Nadu Q Branch arrived in Kochi on Thursday to collect information on activities of human trafficking rackets.

The Q Branch team will collect details about the two kingpins of the racket who were reportedly arrested by the city police. The arrested were John Kennedy and Sunil of Kollachil, the Express News Service said.

Police said the Q Branch team also questioned the Lankan Tamils, who were in the city to board a fishing boat to set sail to Australia.

“Four officials of the Q Branch interrogated the Tamils to gather details about them,” said Central Circle Inspector D. S. Suneesh Babu, who took the Tamils into custody from the city the other day. Police said the kingpins coordinated the activities of the human trafficking racket after collecting money from the agents.

“We have the evidence on the money transactions that took place between the agents to finalise the preparations for taking the Tamils to Australia,” police said.