Seven are arrested in swoop on 'traffickers'

SEVEN members of a suspected people-smuggling gang have been arrested after allegedly being involved in helping hundreds of foreign nationals enter the UK illegally.

- By Robert White

The group is believed to have used forged passports and visas of people with legitimate status to help over 500 Gambians arrive and get black-market work.

The alleged scheme, based in Greater London and West Yorkshire, is said to have become a wide-scale, dangerous criminal network.

It allegedly charged around £5,000 per person and made millions of pounds.