Channel migrants: Man arrested after people smuggling probe

October 7, 2022   

(BBC) A 30-year-old man has been arrested as part of an investigation into the smuggling of people across the English Channel in small boats.

The Albanian national was detained by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers in Surbiton in south-west London.

He is suspected of being involved in an Albanian organised crime group co-ordinating the movements of migrants from France to the UK.

The man was arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration.

He was arrested as part of a planned operation, the NCA said.

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