Smuggling

An Egyptian man suspected of organizing the smuggling of thousands of people aboard “death traps” from North Africa into Italy has been arrested in London, British police said on Thursday. The 40-year-old man was detained in west London…

Interpol has issued an international warrant for a Lebanese man suspected of trafficking stolen antiquities, weeks after he was questioned in Lebanon, judicial officials said Friday. The Red Notice was unsealed 10 months after a criminal…

Tighter security measures by customs authorities at Cairo International Airport have helped thwart several smuggling attempts, officials said. Separate attempts to smuggle memory cards, drugs and swords into Egypt were foiled at terminal…

Italian police arrested 40 people on Tuesday in a new crackdown targeting the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, with suspects accused of drugs trafficking with counterparts in Latin America using shadow networks of Chinese money brokers. “Today’s raid…

The bodies of 18 Afghan migrants who died while being smuggled into Bulgaria were returned to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Taliban government’s Foreign Ministry said. Bulgarian authorities discovered…

Mohamed Awad and Ahmad Omar, two ​​members of an organized crime group who smuggled over 40 Syrian migrants into the UK, have been jailed. The defendants both pleaded guilty to assisting unlawful immigration. Awad, aged 25, of London,…

Two Afghan families of 7 members were deceived by human smugglers as they wanted to travel from Iran to Turkey through smuggling; however, the smugglers dropped them in the Iraqi city, Sulaymaniyah, instead of Turkey, leaving the two Afghan…

The complaints of farmers in Lopburi Province, Thailand, about the existence of chemical odors leaking inside their agricultural lands, led to the discovery of several tanks with the capacity of 200 liters, weighing no less than 500 tons,…

A group of more than 30 Cambodians was sent back to their country after illegally crossing the border into Thailand. The Cambodian Consulate General, assisted by the Thai authorities sent the Cambodians to their home country on October…