The victims included 46 children, mostly locals forced into sex work in hostels and slums, and 180 Ghanaian men who were promised jobs online and then enslaved for forced labour.
The country cracked down on migration in 2016 under pressure from the European Union, but experts say this increased the risk of exploitation for migrants by forcing them to move in secret.
"We have to remember the families that they thought they were going to support by finding employment - and then suddenly they were enslaved," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The children were mostly from Niger. In addition to those used for sex work, others were taken from their families and forced to beg at markets and bus stations.
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