All news on the topic: Smuggling

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.

Police believe those arrested charged people thousands of pounds to bring them to the UK illegally.

Police believe Praveen Arora’s alternative medicines business was used to smuggle prescription-only painkillers hidden among legitimate herbal therapies

An unnamed woman has been charged with wildlife trafficking after police discovered 130 poisonous frogs hidden inside film cannisters found in her bags at El Dorado Airport

Deadly weapons including four guns have been smuggled into Metropolitan police custody centres despite warnings that came after the shooting of officer Matt Ratana

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

Haulage boss Caolan Gormley, 26, from Co Tyrone, was driven by 'greed' the court heard today as he played a role in trying to smuggle 39 people into the UK in the back of a lorry, leading to their deaths

Dale Semper will take a £1million claim before a judge after his career was ruined when he was wrongly accused of gun crime, money laundering and 'people smuggling' by Met Police

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

Romanian people smuggler Adrian Constantin, 36 - who acted as a "minder" to assist gang members - was jailed for over three years after being extradited back to the UK to face justice

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

Mexican officials said the kidnapping and two killings were a "confusion, not a direct attack" as four Americans were believed to have been mistaken for drug smugglers

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