A joint operation between Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Guardia Civil in Spain has led to the arrest of seven men from an Albanian organised crime group who were allegedly involved in smuggling illegal immigrants into the UK on board freight lorries.
The NCA said the gang brought in around 50 illegal immigrants—mainly Albanians—on ferries between the Spanish ports of Bilbao and Santander and Portsmouth, Southampton, and Liverpool in England.
