A Birmingham-based people smuggler who boasted of making over £1.5million through his criminal networks is facing jail after being caught by the National Crime Agency. Pistiwan Jameel, 54, acted as a broker for smuggling gangs in France, arranging spaces on small boats for migrants attempting to cross the Channel. The Iraqi-born British national, who came to the UK in 2002, was suspected of being behind dozens of cross-Channel small boat crossings. Investigators found evidence of his involvement in the illegal movement of migrants after surveillance operations caught him collecting payments in…