A Turkish businessman who supplied thousands of boats and engines to people smugglers operating in the English Channel has been jailed for 11 years.
Adem Savas, 45, made “millions” charging around £4,000 ($5,400) for each boat, with some likely to have been involved in the deaths of migrants, says the UK’s National Crime Agency.
Savas began supplying boats in 2019 to people-smuggling networks in Belgium and France and the NCA estimated he supplied equipment used in thousands of small boat crossings to the UK.
Investigators believe that in 2023, Savas supplied equipment used in around half of all Channel cros
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