Etiket: smuggling
Nine suspects arrested on suspicion of smuggling after migrant boat disaster
The Greek authorities arrested nine survivors of the shipwreck off the Greek coast on Thursday. They are suspected of membership of a smuggling gang, among other things. This is reported…
Football player Quincy Promes prosecuted for smuggling hundreds of kilos of cocaine via Antwerp
Football player Quincy Promes is being prosecuted for importing hundreds of kilos of cocaine. The batches of coke were intercepted in January 2020 in the port of Antwerp. Promes had…
Amstelvener (36) arrested for smuggling hundreds of kilos of cocaine, including via Schiphol
Last Tuesday, the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee arrested a 36-year-old man from Amstelveen on suspicion of large-scale cocaine smuggling and trafficking. The South American merchandise entered the country via the port…
Fifty-year-old sentenced to 36 months in prison for human smuggling with false Italian papers
Fifty-year-old sentenced to 36 months in prison for human smuggling with false Italian papers The Maritime Police intercepted people from the Italian region of Tuscany on six occasions from 2017…
Singaporean sentenced to death must defend himself for cannabis smuggling : “Almost impossible to find a lawyer” | Abroad
He is one of a rising number of death row inmates who must represent themselves after their appeal because they do not have access to a lawyer, activists say. Suppiah…
Belgium and Panama will exchange more information in the fight against drug smuggling | Drug war in Antwerp
About 22 percent of all cargo ships worldwide sail under the Panamanian flag, making Panama the largest flag state in the world. Many cargo ships departing from source countries for…
Germany wants to focus on legal migration to put a stop to people smuggling
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser believes the shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast, which killed dozens of migrants last weekend, demonstrates the need for more legal options for immigration. She said…
OM: Dozens to hundreds of Eritreans in the Netherlands are victims of violent human smuggling
Dozens to hundreds of Eritreans living in the Netherlands are victims of people smugglers who torture and extort refugees. The Public Prosecution Service confirms this after reporting by News hour.…
Milder sentence for leader of Vietnamese human smuggling gang
Milder sentence for leader of Vietnamese human smuggling gang More than three years ago, 39 migrants died during a transport from Zeebrugge to England. They suffocated in a refrigerator truck.…
The Netherlands and Belgium sign a pact with shipping companies against drug smuggling | News item
News item | 17-02-2023 | 19:00 The Netherlands, Belgium and five major international shipping companies are joining forces in the fight against organized crime in the seaports of Rotterdam and…