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Report someone who's smuggling people, goods or cash into the UK illegally
A people smuggler has been jailed for cramming 7 migrants into a one-person sleeping compartment and brazenly trying to enter the UK.
A people smuggler has been jailed after smuggling migrants, including a child, towards the UK.
A British man who smuggled 4 Albanian migrants into the UK in his campervan has been jailed for 15 months after being foiled by a receipt from a Belgian casino.
A people smuggler has been jailed for conspiring to bring 16 Albanian migrants to the UK with fake EU passports and fraudulent airline bookings.
A people smuggler has been jailed today for attempting to bring a Vietnamese woman into the UK by cramming her into the dashboard of his car.
Home Office criminal and financial investigators arrested 4 suspected people smugglers.
New measures will close existing loopholes exploited by unscrupulous breeders and traders
Bolstered prison security has thwarted thousands of attempts to smuggle drugs, weapons and phones behind bars as the clampdown on prison rule breakers advances.
The men were sentenced to over six years in prison for smuggling seven Indian migrants into the UK.
Factsheet giving details of the measures contained in the Nationality and Borders Bill.
A French couple have been jailed for almost 10 years after they trapped Vietnamese migrants, including children, inside sofas to smuggle them into the UK.
Several members of a suspected people smuggling ring have been arrested in a series of raids after allegedly attempting to traffic migrants through UK airports.
Criminal gangs who try to fly phones, drugs and weapons into prisons using drones face finding themselves there instead under tough new restrictions coming into force today (25 January).
The Prime Minister will urge leaders to join forces to protect Europe’s borders from criminal gangs and face down Russian aggression at the European Political Community [EPC] meeting in Granada, Spain today [Thursday 5th October].
This renewed strategy from HMRC and the UK Border Agency shows our continued commitment to tackling tobacco fraud.
Partnership with social media companies to clamp down on people smugglers’ operations online.
A report on the outputs of HMRC's alcohol strategy covering alcohol seizures, criminal enforcement and the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme.
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