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UK sanctions dozens, including 'gangland bosses', in people-smuggling crackdown
The UK has sanctioned 25 people-smuggling bosses and enablers as part of a crackdown on irregular migration.
Gang ring leaders, key smugglers, fake passport suppliers, underground banking operators and a company in China accused of advertising its small boats online for the purpose of people-smuggling have all been targeted. Earlier this week, the government announced new powers under the Sanctions Act to 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. Politics latest: Badenoch will be the next PM, Cleverly says Working with the National Crime Agency (NCA), the Foreign Office has now identified individuals and entities it says are involved in smuggling people over the Channel.
People smugglers and underground bankers Among those on the new sanctions list are seven Iraqi-linked individuals. Several are accused of helping smuggle migrants across the Channel in the back of lorries.
The government said another runs safe houses for migrants in France before they attempt the crossing. Also sanctioned are three "hawala bankers.
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