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A suspected organised crime boss and his associates have been arrested for allegedly facilitating hundreds of Botswana nationals into the UK illegally, as part of a surge in law enforcement activity to take down people-smuggling gangs. In the early hours of Tuesday 3 June, five men and one woman were arrested in strikes across the […]
A new criminal offence of ‘coerced internal concealment’, to be introduced as an amendment to the landmark Crime and Policing Bill, will crack down on anyone, including gang leaders who force people to hide items inside their bodies to avoid detection. This practice, also known by the street names ‘plugging’, ‘stuffing’ and ‘banking’, is […]
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