UK police charge Egyptian over Mediterranean migrant crossings

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 26, 2023 12:02 am

London, United Kingdom: British police said Saturday they had charged an Egyptian man accused of masterminding the smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe, following an international investigation.

Officers from the UK's National Crime Agency arrested Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Eibd, 40, near his west London home on Wednesday, after a probe which also involved Italy's prosecutors, coastguard and financial crimes investigators.

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