Trio charged over £200,000 in cash seized from car in Folkestone
On Saturday 18 May 2024, a car was stopped during routine security procedures by Border Force officials on the UK side of the Channel Tunnel in Folkestone. The vehicle was…
Vapes and illicit tobacco concealed behind false walls in Gravesend and Dartford shops
Vapes, illicit tobacco and cash have been seized during a multi-agency operation in north Kent. On Wednesday 24 April 2024, officers from North Kent’s Community Safety Unit targeted three shops…
NCA probe sees man arrested in Dover on suspicion of smuggling £200,000 out of UK
Four alleged members of an organised crime group that specialises in smuggling criminal cash out of the country and into Albania have been arrested in a National Crime Agency (NCA)…
Over 100 migrants intercepted travelling to Dover in lorry trailers: Suspected smugglers arrested
Six men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to facilitate illegal migration as part of a National Crime Agency probe into a London-based people smuggling network. They are alleged…
Men who attempted to smuggle 39 migrants, OUT of UK through Dover jailed for 12-years
Two men who attempted to smuggle 39 migrants, including a 6-year-old boy and a teenage girl, out of the UK in the back of a refrigerated lorry have been jailed…
Russian HGV driver jailed for attempting to smuggle migrants ‘OUT’ of the UK to France
A Russian HGV driver has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to smuggling migrants ‘from the UK to France’. Nikolai Kuznetsov, aged 39 was stopped by Border Force…
Jail for delivery driver who hid £720,000 of criminal cash in secret compartments
Eurtotunnel terminal in Folkestone Library image A delivery driver who hid around £720,000 of illegally-earned cash within the side panelling of his van has been jailed. Simonas Moise, 49, was…
Canterbury court jails lorry driver involved in ‘people smuggling’ network
A lorry driver who smuggled migrants into the UK for a London-based people smuggling gang has been jailed for two-years-and-eight months. Vasile Balcovei, 49, from Tulcea in Romania dropped two…
National Crime Agency arrest in Ashford leads to jail for people smuggling lorry driver
The National Crime Agency has reported a lorry driver who was caught trying to smuggle a wanted criminal out of the UK has been jailed for three years. Muhamed Alievski…
£10million of cocaine seized from sea chest buried in banana ship’s hull at Sheerness
Cocaine hidden deep within a container ship at Sheerness Port in Kent has been seized as part of a National Crime Agency investigation involving police officers and Border Force. The…