A man from Manchester accused of being part of a people smuggling gang is being hunted. Six men, including one from Longsight, have been jailed for a total of 26 years for transporting migrants through Portsmouth port and into the UK in the back of a refrigerated lorry.
However, the National Crime Agency say the alleged ringleader of the group and his accomplice remain at large. Goran Jalal, aged 37 and from Bradford, is suspected of organising crossings, while Hemin Ali Salih, aged 37 and from Gorton, is wanted after being convicted of attempting to use Jalal’s criminal network to smuggle a relative to Britain. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Central to the plot was Romanian lorry driver Marinel Danut Palage, aged 31, who carried out migrant runs for the network in his truck, using crossings from Normandy into Portsmouth.
Kamaran Kader, 44, and Pshtewan Ghafour, 37 acted alongside Jalal and worked with Palage to organise crossings. The gang were arrested in March 2019 after surveillance officers followed them to a 'handover meeting' on an industrial estate in Runcton in West Sussex.
According to the NCA, at least three migrants travelled in Palage’s lorry on a ferry from Caen in France, before being collected by cars driven by other gang members.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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