A gang leader who boasted of smuggling dozens of women into the UK using HGVs and small boats has been jailed for 10 years. In covertly obtained recordings by National Crime Agency investigators, Nzar Jabar Mohamad, from Hull, was heard telling criminal associates in Europe that “I brought too many women,… Read more »
TrailerLock holds universal key to fridge trailer and sea container security
According to a report from the Department for Transport on Feb 18th, 2021, recent trends in road freight have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. In 2020, Road goods vehicles made 3.2 million trips travelling from Great Britain to Europe, a 6% decrease compared to the previous… Read more »
14 dangerously overloaded vans taken off the road in North London
DVSA has successfully removed 31 defective and dangerous vans in two targeted operations in London. At operations Lemon and Marmalade examiners found 14 overloaded vehicles. One of the vehicles was over 2 tonnes (37.82%) overweight, loaded with tree stumps and tools. The driver was also found to be driving under… Read more »
People smuggling suspect wanted in connection with Essex lorry deaths is arrested by the NCA
National Crime Agency officers have arrested a man wanted in connection with the smuggling of migrants found dead in a lorry in Essex in October 2019. The Vietnamese national, who at this stage is not being named, was detained at a supermarket petrol station just of the A66 in Middlesbrough… Read more »
Lorry driver jailed over failed migrant smuggling attempt
A Turkish lorry driver has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle 17 migrants out of the UK in the back of his lorry. Hakan Zengin, 36, from Cigli in Turkey was detained after his vehicle was stopped by the National Crime Agency and police… Read more »
Drug trafficker jailed after £37.6 million cocaine seizure
A German truck driver has been jailed for 19 years after attempting to bring almost half a tonne of cocaine into the UK hidden in tyres. Kawus Rafiei, 57, originally from Shiraz in Iran, was sentenced last Friday after being found guilty of attempting to import Class A drugs following … Read more »
Lorry driver and 16 migrants arrested in NCA operation targeting organised immigration crime
A Turkish lorry driver has been arrested on suspicion of people smuggling offences on a motorway slip road, as part of a National Crime Agency investigation. The 36-year-old was detained after his vehicle was stopped at the M25’s junction with the A3 at around 3.30pm today (Sunday 21 March). Sixteen… Read more »
£44m of MDMA shipped to Australia hidden in excavator
Three men have been arrested in London and two in Western Sydney following the seizure of 450 kilos of MDMA hidden within an excavator that was shipped into the Port of Brisbane from the UK earlier last year. A joint investigation was launched by the National Crime Agency and Australian… Read more »
Milk delivery contractor prosecuted for dangerous vans
Manchester Dairy Limited has been prosecuted by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) at Coventry Magistrates Court on the 9th of December 2020 for deliberately overloading its vans. The company committed the offences, which they pleaded guilty to, while delivering Freshways milk. The company was using 3.5 tonne vans… Read more »
Mansel Davies HGV operator licence revoked and directors disqualified
Traffic Commissioner said that the company was “irredeemably tainted” by its falsification of maintenance records and deserved to go out of business. Pembrokeshire operator Mansel Davies & Son Ltd has had its licence revoked at a public inquiry after a director ordered a junior member of staff to create false… Read more »
