A UK led partnership has delivered a major blow to international people smuggling gangs, after hundreds of small boats and engines were seized on the Bulgarian border with Turkey. The Kapitan Andreevo border crossing in southern Bulgaria is one of the key routes used by organised crime groups to smuggle small boat related equipment into Europe, and up to the northern coast of France. Over the past 12 months, officers from the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) have worked in Bulgaria, alongside colleagues from the Home Office and the Foreign Office. The teams have been sharing intelligence and m…