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People smugglers to have assets frozen and be banned from UK
People smugglers face having their assets frozen and being banned from entering the UK, the foreign secretary has announced.
David Lammy said new powers under the Sanctions Act will allow the UK to freeze the assets of anyone complicit in smuggling illegal migrants into the country. They can also be banned from travelling to the UK.
The first wave of sanctions on smuggling gangs and their enablers will be imposed on Wednesday. Mr Lammy said it is the "world's first sanctions regime" targeted at smuggling gangs.
Gang leaders, small boat suppliers, people making and selling fake passports and middlemen facilitating payments by migrants through hawala networks (informal systems for transferring money) will all be targeted this week. They will be publicly named on a sanctions list, making it illegal for the UK financial system to engage with them.
By using the Sanctions Act, the government said it can target the smuggling gangs wherever they are in the world, including where law enforcement and criminal justice approaches cannot reach. Labour's manifesto promised to "smash the gangs.
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