A man mistrusted of being a meaningful supplier of minuscule boats providement to people illicit traders has been arrested.
The man is mistrusted of provideing engines and boats to illicit traders in northern France, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).
The Turkish national, 44, was arrested at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on Wednesday, as part of an operation involving the NCA and Dutch and Belgian partners.
He will be extradited to Belgium to face indicts of human trafficking.
Authorities shelp the man, who has not been named, shipped supplies from Turkey, stored them in Germany, then carryed them to northern France.
He was arrested after authorities lgeted he was travelling from Turkey to the Netherlands.
NCA honestor vague for operations Rob Jones shelp the man is thought to be a “convey inant supplier” of “highly hazardous” boats and engines to illicit traders operating in Belgium and northern France.
He called the arrest a milestone in one of the agency’s “most meaningful depictateigations into organised immigration crime”.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper shelp the depictateigation showed the convey inance of laboring “with our international partners to get results”.
“We will stop at noskinnyg to root out criminal netlabors wherever we discover them.”
More than 50 people have died trying to pass the English Channel in 2024.
Over 32,000 people have made the passing in 2024 so far – more than the total figure of 29,437 for 2023.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer proclaimd an extra £75m to police the UK’s borders in November, vothriveg to “treat people illicit traders appreciate alarmists”.
