More than 40 people have been arrested during a crack down on people smuggling
across the Channel.More than 40 people have been arrested during "the biggest international operation to crack down on criminal gangs suspected of people-smuggling across the Channel".Operation Punjum, led by the National Crime Agency in the UK, was carried out alongside Operation Thoren in Europe to target an organised crime gang suspected of smuggling up to 10,000 people across the Channel in the last 12 to 18 months.
In London, NCA officers arrested a 26-year-old man in Rushey Green, Catford, and a 22-year-old man in St Davids Square, on the Isle of Dogs, both London, on suspicion of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration.Rwanda migrant plan is not 'appalling' but 'should be a deterrent', Priti Patel tells LBC
The NCA said the raids were believed to be the "biggest ever international operation targeting criminal networks suspected of using small boats to smuggle thousands of people into the UK".Some 900 officers from the federal police and the Osnabruck police headquarters were involved in 36 searches of properties, with 18 people arrested in Lower Saxony, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany's press agency dpa said.
Iranian Hewa Rahimpur, 29, who was living in Ilford, east London, was arrested in May suspected of being a leading figure in a network organising human trafficking via small boats and is facing extradition proceedings to send him to Belgium. "And we'd also like to attack the money flows in a lot more detail than we do right now. So there's plenty more to do. It's not going to stop it but it is going to make a dent."
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