Notorious people smuggler arrested in UK after BBC investigation

Khdir's smuggling operations facilitated illegal migration across the Channel, exposing vulnerable migrants to dangerous conditions and exploitation.

A man once called the architect of illegal Channel crossings — responsible for moving vulnerable migrants through the camps of northern France at a profit of up to £100,000 a week — has been arrested in the English Midlands, not by routine law enforcement, but in the wake of a BBC investigation that revealed where he had quietly settled. Twana Jamal Khdir, an Iraqi national convicted in France a decade ago, had slipped across borders undetected until journalism did what surveillance had not. His arrest near Uppingham, Leicestershire, is as much a story about the limits of international crimina

Notorious people smuggler arrested in UK after BBC investigation

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