Cash n’ carry smugglers face jail

A gang of people traffickers who smuggled more than £42m out of the country to Dubai are facing years in jail. The group made hundreds of trips to the UAE, between 2017 and 2019, after making a fortune from organised immigration crime, money laundering and selling class A drugs. National Crime Agency officers discovered the gang had also plotted to smuggle 17 migrants, including five children, into the UK in the back of a van carrying tyres in 2019. The…