All news on the topic: People Smuggling

A shopkeeper who made hundreds of thousands of Euros helping facilitate migrants crossing to Britain on small boats has avoided jail by a French judge.

A special police unit equipped with drones and trained in the use of riot and crowd-control tactics is being set up to tackle the rise of mega-dinghies being used to transport migrants across the Channel.

The UK is set to sign a deal with Belgium in a bid to slash small-boat crossings in the English Channel.

The French police’s interception rate of illegal migrants has fallen despite a £660million deal with the UK to stop the boats, an analysis of Home Office data has revealed.

A mega dinghy carrying 230 people crossed the English Channel overnight on a single dinghy, breaking the previous record.

A syrian asylum seeker has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a woman died on a small boat to Britain.

An Essex-based gang fronted by a career criminal have been found guilty of smuggling Afghan migrants into the UK using a truck, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency.

Two men who ran a massive people-smuggling operation from a car wash have been sentenced to 19 years each in prison.

A U.K. court has sentenced two Vietnamese nationals to more than a decade in prison each for running a lucrative people-smuggling operation advertised on Facebook.

The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on several Balkan-based crime figures and gangs linked to “illegal migration to the U.K.,” and members of an international network financing people-smuggling operations.

Two citizens of Azerbaijan were involved in a scheme to import illegal migrants from Asia into Ukraine.

Labour’s new Home Secretary has warned the UK could suspend visas from countries that do not "cooperate" and agree to return deals for migrants.

A BBC investigation has exposed the French and UK operations of a powerful and violent smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats.

A UK crackdown targets Balkan gangsters who used fraudulent Bosnian documents—only weeks after Bosnian journalists exposed the extent of the identity theft scheme.

The first wave of sanctions aimed at key figures in people-smuggling gangs have come into force in a bid to hit those involved in assisting illegal immigration to the UK.

Bosnian police arrested 18 suspects in a migrant smuggling bust along the Balkan route, seizing vehicles and key evidence in a coordinated crackdown.

Four suspected human smugglers arrested in Libya in joint UK-Libya operation targeting Mediterranean trafficking routes.

Six men have been arrested in the UK over their suspected involvement in a major people smuggling ring.