After the migrant and trafficking routes changed to Libya, her efforts continued and uncovered criminal networks reaching into Europe.

As of 2022, Estefanos deplored that no traffickers had been brought to justice, with little interest from national governments and international organisations.

Over time a clearer picture of the criminal networks emerged, a small group of Bedouin bosses in Sinai were at the top, with connections to gangs of kidnappers in Sudan, as well as agents in different cities around the world.

[4] In February 2020, Estefanos travelled to Addis Ababa, and shortly afterwards Kidane Habtemariam Zekarias was arrested, head of the infamous Bani Walid detention camp of human trafficking in Libya.

According to the prosecution, there was one Zoom video meeting with Dutch prosecutors, no request for extradition, and that with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe had not shown interest in the case.

[9]: 12–13  In January 2021, he had escaped and later was convicted in absentia for life in prison, but as Estefanos had feared, no middlemen were found and none of the networks interrupted.

[10] As of 2022, Estefanos deplored that no traffickers had been brought to justice, with little interest from national governments and international organisations.