Seven men involved in trafficking illegal immigrants from Albania to Britain to work in cannabis factories have been jailed.
The Metropolitan Police described them as a “sophisticated organised crime group” and said they dismantled the gang after launching an operation together with the Home Office’s immigration enforcement department and the UK Border Force.
Seven men were sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London on Thursday for conspiring to facilitate the illegal entry of people from Albania into the UK between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 15, 2021.
The Albanians were hidden in special compartments in the cabs of Romanian lorries which crossed the English Channel by ferry from Dunkirk to Dover….