(Sky News) Two men who ran a people-smuggling operation from a car wash have pleaded guilty.
Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, had previously denied the charges of assisting a breach or attempted breach of immigration laws.
But on Friday, on the tenth day of their trial at Cardiff Crown Court, they pleaded guilty to all offences.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the pair were “leading a double life … they seemed to be operating a successful car wash” but were “part of a prolific people-smuggling group moving migrants across Europe.”
The men were charged in February with five counts of conspiring to breach migration laws in Italy, Romania, Croatia and Germany to bring people into EU countries between September 2022 and April 2023 — mainly migrants from Iran, Iraq and Syria.
