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An Iraqi national has been arrested in a major operation to smash an international people smuggling ring. National Crime Agency officers have now charged the 31-year-old man after he was detained by officers in Wolverhampton. Ramal Briem is suspected of being involved in a wider network of organised people smugglers operating in the UK. He was detained at a property in Crawford Road, Wolverhampton, on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration. He is alleged to have been involved in a smuggling event in March 2024 which saw six people transported to Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire in the…

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