NAME / The Albanian is sentenced to 9 years in prison, he sent migrants to Britain by raft

2024-04-23 16:44:37Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
NAME / The Albanian is sentenced to 9 years in prison, he sent migrants to
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An Albanian has been sentenced to 9 years in prison in the United Kingdom, for organizing the crossing of immigrants from northern France by raft in the English Channel. 

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Mustaf Cunaj, 41, was one of several UK-based people linked to a people-smuggling ring believed to have brought around 10,000 people into the country. 

The ringleader, Hewa Rahimpur, was jailed for 11 years in Belgium in October for overseeing the operation, which stretched from Turkey to Belgium and France. 

Several other gang members received prison sentences ranging from 30 months to 10 years. 

Cunaj was jailed after the UK parliament on Monday approved controversial government plans to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda as part of a crackdown on "small boat" crossings. 

Investigators linked him to at least 31 passes, including to children as young as five. 

He admitted conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration and was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court. 


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