All news on the topic: Smuggling

Members of a migrant trafficking group who have been arrested admit to killing migrants and burying them in the desert.

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.

NDLEA Operatives foil Christmas drug smuggling attempt, seizing multi million dollar worth of methamphetamine and "loud" cannabis coming in from Canada into Nigeria

A gang which smuggled up to £7 billion worth of drugs from the continent over two-a-half years have been jailed.

Authorities in Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia collaborate in a Europol-backed operation targeting an organized criminal group accused of smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe.

Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, had previously denied all five counts but pleaded guilty to all charges on the tenth day of their trial.

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

A British beautician facing decades behind bars after being accused of smuggling cocaine into the US from Mexico has insisted she believed she was only carrying bags of cash across the border.

Authorities from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have dismantled a smuggling network that transported at least 159 migrants in dangerous conditions.

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

In a series of raids, authorities arrested eight alleged members of a migrant smuggling ring, including four high-value targets, Europol said in a prepared statement.

A U.S. federal court on Wednesday sentenced a Mexican national to 40 years in prison for his role in a human smuggling operation that tragically claimed the lives of eight people near Del Rio, Texas.

A U.S. court has sentenced former British Virgin Islands (BVI) Prime Minister Andrew Alturo Fahie to more than 11 years in prison for his role in a major cocaine smuggling operation.

The ringleader of an organized crime group that tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the U.K. via a container of bananas was convicted Wednesday, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported.

British former inmate Natalie Welsh described life inside Venezuela's notorious San Antonio prison as 'like a war zone' - and revealed how inmates patrolled the walls with shotguns

A network of people smugglers referred to Vietnamese migrants as 'pork' and 'chickens' as other masterminds of the horror gang are jailed for their part in a smuggling ring

The 25-year-old British student has been detained in Colombia and forced to pose in front an illegal haul after reportedly attempting to smuggle cocaine disguised as milk out of the country

Lindsay Sandiford, a grandmother from Cheltenham, is facing a fire squad for drug smuggling in Indonesia - but she has now been told may not be executed if she can fulfil one condition

Johny Mercer, who Rishi Sunak appointed to his Cabinet, filmed episodes of prison documentary Banged Up in November 2022. The programme saw him smoke a roll-up cigarette that had been smuggled into his cell in another inmate's anus

Sergeant Matt Ratana was allegedly shot dead by Louis De Zoysa, a double-jointed man with a ten-inch antique revolver, after he smuggled it into a custody centre in Croydon, South London

Hewa Rahimpur has been convicted and fined at a court in Bruges, Belgium of one of the biggest people-smuggling trials in Europe where 20 out of 21 defendants were found guilty.