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Chameleon karma: Smuggler is caught trying to sneak 74 lizards into Austria by stuffing them into socks in his suitcase The man was arrested in Vienna after arriving on a flight from Tanzania He had stuffed the animals in ice cream boxes and socks for the long flight Experts believe the chameleons were destined for … Read more
Dutch port officials have made headlines for mocking a trucker as they seized his ham sandwiches under Brexit rules– but criminals are having the last laugh as they use the country’s shipping terminals to smuggle drugs worth billions of pounds every year. Famously tolerant of cannabis use, the Netherlands is also a seen as a … Read more
Human trafficker Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 26, (pictured) who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he made trafficking people on refurbishing his girlfriend’s hair salon, a court heard today A human trafficker who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he … Read more
People smuggling gangs offer a ‘Christmas discount’ of £300 a head to migrants wanting to cross the English Channel to Britain illegally The UK Border Force prepares for a surge in crossings over the festive period Intelligence reports suggest average costs for migrants around £500 to £1,000 Means illegal crossings now available for less than … Read more
Knocked up to locked up: Woman is caught smuggling cocaine hidden inside fake pregnancy bump made from a watermelon The woman boarded a bus bound for Rio de Janeiro with drugs under her dress Her ‘baby bump’ turned out to be a watermelon stuffed with bricks of cocaine The drugs weighed more than 4lbs and … Read more
A lorry driver accused of being a member of a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 migrants has told jurors he only agreed to move cigarettes ‘for a bit of extra cash’. Christopher Kennedy, 24, of Keady, County Armagh, allegedly picked up two trailer-loads of people from Purfleet in Essex, transported from Zeebrugge in … Read more
The moment a migrant was loaded into a tanker by French people smuggling gang that got 1,000 people into UK illegally before being raided by police Gang – called the Pierrefitte connection – made 3million euros smuggling people Police have watched them for the past 12 months in a surveillance operation Earlier this month, French … Read more
Two migrants have been jailed for smuggling themselves and a total of 23 people across the Channel into the UK on board two dangerously overcrowded rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RHIBs). Iraqi national Assad Abdul Latif Sayed Abdulghany, 30, was sentenced to 16 months imprisonment. He arrived in the UK after smuggling himself and 16 other people, … Read more
A 19-year-old who found herself facing up to 16 years in jail after she was caught smuggling Ecstasy tablets into a music festival has avoided jail after a judge ruled she was ‘naive’ and ‘a good person at heart.’ College student Lily Bond, from Westhoughton, near Bolton, was 18 when a police sniffer dog found … Read more
‘How come a court proved you guilty?’ Schapelle Corby is reduced to tears in a trailer for SAS Australia as she’s interrogated about her drug smuggling past By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:43 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 07:56 BST, 5 October 2020 Schapelle Corby’s reality TV debut won’t be a … Read more