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UK sanctions dozens, including 'gangland bosses', in people-smuggling crackdown
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 23 – The UK targets 25 individuals and entities with asset freezes and travel bans under a new sanctions regime to disrupt smuggling networks fueling record Channel crossings, officials said.
- On Wednesday, the UK government imposed sanctions under the new regime, targeting 25 individuals and entities involved in people-smuggling, and barring UK banks from dealings.
- Amid record small-boat arrivals, the UK government enacts sanctions following legislation under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, as nearly 24,000 migrants cross the English Channel this year, underscoring domestic pressure.
- It also targets three people accused of using the ancestral Hawala banking system, `explicitly for the purpose of people-smuggling`, Foreign Office said.
- Foreign Secretary David Lammy called it `a landmark moment`, while NCA Director General Graeme Biggar said `The NCA is determined to use every tool` to disrupt smuggling networks.
- It remains unclear how effective the regime will be, while Dr Madeleine Sumption said `surprised if the sanctions were the 'game changer' to end small boat crossings`.
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The UK imposed sanctions Wednesday on more than two dozen people, groups and suppliers from the Balkans, the Middle East and China accused of helping migrants cross the Channel. In what it called a "landmark" first use of new powers, the move came as the government faces political pressure to stem migrant arrivals on small boats from northern France, at record levels. The asset freezes and travel bans announced target individuals and entities "d…
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