All news on the topic: Smugglers

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

A 30-year-old woman, described as a "drug mule" by South African police, was carrying 68 "cocaine bullets" in her stomach with an estimated weight of 850g when she was detained at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport, according to police.

HMS Trent confiscated half a tonne of the Class A drug from a speed boat south of the Dominican Republic earlier this month, taking its annual total of seizures to more than £550m.

Three men have been sentenced for their roles in an organised crime group linked to the smuggling of migrants into the UK by lorry.

A Surinamese man, wanted by Interpol for a series of crimes including the smuggling of approximately 450 kg of cocaine by aircraft, was captured last week in São Paulo, Brazilian Federal Police stated.

Hundreds of people – including children – face lengthy prison sentences under harsh Greek anti-smuggling law