Arrests were made by the National Crime Agency
Two Albanian nationals from Nottingham were among the four people detained as part of an investigation into a group alleged to have smuggled migrants to the UK in boats from Belgium. The pair in Nottingham, aged 44 and 48, and a 46-year-old Irish man in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, were arrested by Nottingham Crime Agency officers on Tuesday morning, February 28.
Investigators allege they have been involved in acquiring a rigid hulled inflatable boat and using it to travel to Belgium to collect migrants, landing at Margate in Kent. A 51-year-old man from Albania was also arrested in Hove on Tuesday morning for his suspected role in assisting unlawful immigration.
The men are all alleged to be part of a gang organising a series of people smuggling runs to the UK from Europe, including a number of crossing events last year. The operation is linked to two arrests in Belgium on Sunday, October 30 last year, where a man from Basingstoke and a man from Leicester were arrested on suspicion of people smuggling offences as they arrived on the coast near Nieuwpoort at 4.30am.
"Tackling people smuggling continues to be a priority for the NCA as we target and disrupt organised crime groups at every step of the route.”
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