An adoption agency in the Australian state of Queensland has known for about a year that some of its overseas adoptees could have been victims of a child kidnapping racket involving India's poor.
The state's Child Safety minister Margaret Keech says an audit was conducted of Indian children adopted in Queensland between 1995 and 2007.
Two of 23 Indian adoptions involved the Malaysian Social Services allegedly involved in the racket. One of the adoptions was outside the period when poor Indian children were allegedly kidnapped. The other involved two children.
Ms Keech says Adoption Services Queensland has been cooperating with the investigation. She says the agency's only role was to approve suitable adoptive families and to send their file to overseas countries for processing.
The federal government is investigating the claims directly with Indian authorities