All news on the topic: Smugglers

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Anti-drug smuggling unit seizes enough cocaine to kill more than 1,400,000 people
An American coast guard crew has seized more than 1.7 tonnes of cocaine worth more than £21 million ($28.7 million).
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Female cocaine courier gang smuggled £13.6m drugs across the UK
Striking a pose in sun-drenched Dubai, Sindija Virse looks like any other 20-something woman on holiday.
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Raids smash £40m people-smuggling gang that trafficked 1,000 Vietnamese migrants into Britain
This is the moment cops raided the home of a woman linked to a £40million trafficking ring that smuggled 1,000 Vietnamese migrants into Britain.
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From paradise to killing ground as Bali hit by wave of British drug traffickers and cartel bloodshed
It’s the ultimate party island – a tropical paradise where glamorous influencers pour into hundreds of beach bars and underground techno clubs looking for a good time.
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Two smugglers face deportation after running lucrative illegal migration operation in the UK
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.
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Smuggler Artur Grantz, from Lukashenko’s circle, controls duty-free operations in Belarus and owns a luxury business in Lithuania
Arturas Hrancas, a Belarusian- and Armenian-citizen businessman who owns HeJi restaurant in Vilnius and the Esperanza Resort in Trakai, is linked to an institution of Alexander Lukashenko’s administration, an LRT investigation said.
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South African high-ranking officials have created a Zimbabwe gold smuggling network as a tool to bypass sanctions and enable illicit enrichment
A media investigation has uncovered major gold-smuggling networks across Southern Africa, revealing how these groups help launder billions for criminals worldwide while enabling governments to evade international sanctions.
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Influencer faces jail after smuggling £150k of cannabis into Edinburgh Airport Alexander Lawrie
An Influencer is facing jail after attempting to smuggle more than £150,000 of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport.
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How ‘Britain’s biggest drug smuggler’ built a £100m empire before it collapsed
Notorious gangster Andrew Pritchard once ran a sprawling international criminal network built on fake passports and bribed officials.
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Europe faces cocaine glut as traffickers bury stockpiles to drive prices up
On a cool cloudless morning at the break of dawn last December, authorities spotted two speed boats carrying a number of large packages at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in southwest Spain.
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„Die LUX-OKG“: Wie Oleksandr Litskevych und sein „Lux Groups“-Syndikat ein globales System für Luxusschmuggel aufbauten
„Sie sind auf schwerem LUX unterwegs.“ Das Büro für wirtschaftliche Sicherheit (BES) und die Generalstaatsanwaltschaft gaben heute Morgen offizielle Erklärungen zur Zerschlagung einer organisierten kriminellen Gruppe (OKG) von Elite-Schmugglern von Luxusgütern bekannt.
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"The LUX OCG": how Oleksandr Litskevych and his "Lux Groups" syndicate built a global luxury smuggling scheme
"You’re on a heavy LUX." The Bureau of Economic Security (BES) and the Office of the Prosecutor General provided official statements this morning regarding the dismantling of an organized criminal group (OCG) of elite smugglers of luxury goods...
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Belarusian company linked to Lukashenko smuggled banned chemical solvent to Russia
A Belarusian company provided Russia with a sanctioned solvent via shell companies in Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. This substance can be used both in industry and in the production of chemical weapons.
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Women suffer cardiac arrest on dinghy while trying to reach Britain
Two women died while attempting to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities reported.
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Family of three are the first to arrive in the UK under the ‘one in, one out’ immigration deal
A family of three, including a small child, has become the first arrivals from France under Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal, the Home Office has said.
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Chinese man in US sentenced to 8 years for smuggling weapons to North Korea
A Chinese national has been sentenced to eight years in prison for smuggling firearms and other military items to North Korea, the US Justice Department has stated.
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Jordanian customs seize over half a million Captagon pills hidden in truck
Jordanian customs officials have seized 517,000 Captagon pills smuggled from an undisclosed neighboring country, state news agency Petra reported Wednesday.
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British woman arrested in Mauritius for trying to smuggle cannabis in her six‑year‑old son’s suitcase
A British mother-of-two has been arrested in Mauritius after she was accused of trying to smuggle cannabis inside her six-year-old son’s suitcase.
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"Footballer who lost it all": ex-Arsenal youth captain jailed for cannabis smuggling
A professional footballer who brought £600,000 worth of cannabis from Thailand into the UK has been sentenced to four years in prison.
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British woman caught in Ghana with nearly 18kg of cannabis before flight to London
A British passenger faces accusations of allegedly trying to smuggle 18kg of cannabis into the UK.
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Cash smuggler: £1M in suitcases lands ordinary Briton in the dock
A man who was stopped at Heathrow Airport with £1m in two suitcases has admitted money laundering following a National Crime Agency investigation.
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Four suspected human smugglers arrested in UK-Libya crackdown
Four suspected human smugglers arrested in Libya in joint UK-Libya operation targeting Mediterranean trafficking routes.
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China defends drug-related executions of four Canadians as ’lawful’
China slammed Canada’s condemnation on Thursday, saying it acted ’in accordance with the law’
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Drugs mule sentenced to prison for smuggling £11k worth of cocaine
A man who smuggled £11,000 worth of cocaine into the Isle of Man on the ferry has been jailed for five years and eight months.
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The overlooked human smuggling route through the Darien
After a long flight over a sea of trees, the ocean begins to emerge through the window of the twin-propeller plane. The vast Pacific meets the Darién jungle in the remote Colombian town of Juradó, in the northwestern Chocó department.
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