All news on the topic: Smuggling

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.

A woman concealed a multitude of exotic creatures in her bra and pockets in a bid to transport them from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland, where she intended to sell them on

Ecuador, the world's largest banana exporter, is facing escalating violence and security challenges due to drug traffickers using banana shipments as a cover for smuggling cocaine

The Jersey Customs and Immigration Service discovered heroin disguised as Cadbury Eclairs being smuggled into Jersey via the post, amid hauls of drugs worth £400,000

Ex adult star Mia Etcheverria, 27, was among a group of five arrested at Carrasco International Airport, Uruguay, when police discovered more than 14lb of cocaine in suitcases

Tereza Hluskova, 27, was jailed in 2018 for attempting to smuggle 8.5kg of heroin into Ireland from Pakistan and has now shared her "horror" experiences behind bars

A US drone spotted the rogue vessel in the Gulf of Oman, heading at high speed under cover of darkness towards civil-war-ravaged Yemen and the British Royal Navy gave chase

From the mysterious death of a housekeeper to being owned by a suspected drug smuggler, the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh are just the latest grim details in the history of Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina, US

A former glamour model is alleged to have smuggled up to £5million in cash from Heathrow airport to Dubai. Jo-Emma Larvin, 44, is accused of smuggling with her husband and three others

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, who had changed his name from Teddy Landrum to embrace his German ancestry, was found dead in the snow outside his Missouri home in the US after failing to attend his trial for drug smuggling