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Smugglers make billions from illegal migrant trafficking to EU countries.
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UK: A 26-year-old Iranian-Kurdish people trafficker and 38 members of his gang were behind bars on Wednesday after Police in five European countries smashed a major cross-border network that smuggled migrants into the UK.
The gang leader was arrested in Britain along with five other people smugglers. Germany arrested 18 gang members, French police nine and Dutch Police six.
Police also seized more than 1,200 life-jackets, about 150 rubber boats and 50 engines, and tens of thousands of euros in cash, firearms and drugs.
The EU law enforcement agency Europol said the trafficking network could have smuggled as many as 10,000 illegal migrants to Britain over the past year and a half and netted as much as €15 million. Police officials said the gang was one of the most active criminal networks smuggling people from France and Belgium to Britain in small boats. – ARAB NEWS
Friday, July 8, 2022 – 01:00
