"Gang held over smuggling 100,000 Turks into Britain
By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent
Published: 12 October 2005
Eight suspected leaders of a people-trafficking gang thought to have smuggled up to 100,000 Turkish people into Britain were arrested by police yesterday in a series of early morning raids. Detectives described the gang as the most prolific people smuggling network they had encountered
Police believe the Europe-wide network received payments totalling tens of millions of pounds to smuggle thousands of mainly Turkish Kurds into the UK during the past few years."
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