Top people smuggler lives in Penge

An Albanian believed to be behind hundreds of attempts to smuggle migrants into the UK has appeared in court. Alket Dauti, 31, was detained as part of a joint UK-Belgian investigation into a crime group thought to be using corrupt truck drivers to smuggle men, women and children into the UK, sometimes using refrigerated lorries. The trucks would pick up migrants in Belgium and transport them to the UK via the Channel ports. Prosecutors in Belgium believe that the network…