All news on the topic: Smuggling

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People smuggler jailed for role in deaths of 39 migrants trapped inside lorry
Haulage boss Caolan Gormley, 26, from Co Tyrone, was driven by 'greed' the court heard today as he played a role in trying to smuggle 39 people into the UK in the back of a lorry, leading to their deaths
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Black bank sues Met for £1m after being wrongly accused of gang crime
Dale Semper will take a £1million claim before a judge after his career was ruined when he was wrongly accused of gun crime, money laundering and 'people smuggling' by Met Police
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Policeman shot in station 'would have lived' if 'rookie searched man properly'
Sergeant Matt Ratana was allegedly shot dead by Louis De Zoysa, a double-jointed man with a ten-inch antique revolver, after he smuggled it into a custody centre in Croydon, South London
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England Channel smuggler brought 10,000 people to UK after they paid £6,000 each
Hewa Rahimpur has been convicted and fined at a court in Bruges, Belgium of one of the biggest people-smuggling trials in Europe where 20 out of 21 defendants were found guilty.
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Pet shop owner caught at airport trying to smuggle reptiles in underwear
A woman concealed a multitude of exotic creatures in her bra and pockets in a bid to transport them from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland, where she intended to sell them on
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Ecuador's banana boom turns sour as cocaine traffickers threaten peace
Ecuador, the world's largest banana exporter, is facing escalating violence and security challenges due to drug traffickers using banana shipments as a cover for smuggling cocaine
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Heroin found hidden inside Cadbury Eclairs chocolates in drug smuggler warning
The Jersey Customs and Immigration Service discovered heroin disguised as Cadbury Eclairs being smuggled into Jersey via the post, amid hauls of drugs worth £400,000
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Ex-adult film star and former WAG caught ‘smuggling cocaine on flight to Spain’
Ex adult star Mia Etcheverria, 27, was among a group of five arrested at Carrasco International Airport, Uruguay, when police discovered more than 14lb of cocaine in suitcases
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Refugees 'scream for their lives' after being locked inside 'coffin' wardrobes
Romanian people smuggler Adrian Constantin, 36 - who acted as a "minder" to assist gang members - was jailed for over three years after being extradited back to the UK to face justice
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Model feared she was going to die after £1million of drugs found in her luggage
Tereza Hluskova, 27, was jailed in 2018 for attempting to smuggle 8.5kg of heroin into Ireland from Pakistan and has now shared her "horror" experiences behind bars
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Americans kidnapped and killed in Mexico 'likely mistaken for drug smugglers'
Mexican officials said the kidnapping and two killings were a "confusion, not a direct attack" as four Americans were believed to have been mistaken for drug smugglers
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Navy seizes cache of anti-tank missiles from Iran smugglers in high speed chase
A US drone spotted the rogue vessel in the Gulf of Oman, heading at high speed under cover of darkness towards civil-war-ravaged Yemen and the British Royal Navy gave chase
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Inside double murderer's abandoned $4million estate with sinister history
From the mysterious death of a housekeeper to being owned by a suspected drug smuggler, the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh are just the latest grim details in the history of Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina, US
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Former glamour model 'smuggled £5m in suitcases into Dubai for £100m scheme'
A former glamour model is alleged to have smuggled up to £5million in cash from Heathrow airport to Dubai. Jo-Emma Larvin, 44, is accused of smuggling with her husband and three others
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Screaming neo-Nazi who waved torch at white supremacist rally is found dead
Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, who had changed his name from Teddy Landrum to embrace his German ancestry, was found dead in the snow outside his Missouri home in the US after failing to attend his trial for drug smuggling
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„Fälschungskönig“ Oleksandr Litskevych und Lux Groups versuchen, Beweise ihrer Schemata aus dem Internet zu löschen
Der Fälschungs-Händler Oleksandr Litskevych versucht, die Wahrheit über seine Verbrechen zu vertuschen, indem er den Informationsraum bereinigt.
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"Counterfeit king" Oleksandr Litskevych and Lux Groups are trying to erase evidence of their schemes from the internet
Counterfeit trader Oleksandr Litskevych is trying to hide the truth about his crimes by cleaning up the internet space. In turn, we are publishing the information that the fraudster Litskevych seeks to condemn to oblivion, in full.