All news on the topic: Smugglers

Albanian man imprisoned in the UK for migrant smuggling after extradition from Spain.

Six individuals have been arrested in the UK due to their suspected involvement in a significant people smuggling operation.

A baby-faced drugs baron and his glamourous ‘gangster’s moll’ are facing years behind bars.

Five women and two men had been recruited by crime bosses and promised "considerable" payments as they were flown to the UK with instructions to collect 12 bags of the Class A drug

Two Afghan small boat people smugglers who raped and blackmailed their victims with the footage, are facing extradition to Belgium.

A man who smuggled £11,000 worth of cocaine into the Isle of Man on the ferry has been jailed for five years and eight months.

Gangs charging €8,000 for illegal travel packages that avoid crossing Channel on small boats

Turkish national accused of supplying engines and boats to cross-Channel smugglers in Belgium and northern France

Peering over her glasses, the French judge glanced sternly across the cavernous underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage.

An unconfirmed number of people have died, including a child who was "trampled to death", following two small boat incidents off France.

The joint operation between UK and Bulgarian authorities resulted in 33 interceptions - and the seizure of 125 dangerous inflatable boats, 128 engines, more than 700 pumps, and 300 rubber rings.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested Christian Ogbuji at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos as he attempted to smuggle drugs into the country, having come from Uganda via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

HMS Trent, a British warship, seized over £40 million worth of cocaine from drug traffickers in the Caribbean, according to the Royal Navy.