This is the face of a human smuggling gang that helped clients including child abusers leave the UK. Crime boss Mohammed Mokter Hossain, 54, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half-years for his role as the head of an organised crime group that smuggled hundreds of people both into and out of the UK.
Hossain was arrested in May 2021, following a covert National Crime Agency investigation which included the use of surveillance and undercover tactics.
The investigation – codenamed Operation Symbolry – has now dismantled the London-based crime group operated by Hossain, who used a network of complicit lorry drivers to move people in both directions across the Channel.
These included a number of fugitives who were seeking to leave the UK as they were wanted for serious crimes such as child abuse and murder.
