People-smuggling leader is jailed



A ringleader of one of Europe's biggest people-smuggling operations has been jailed for eight and a half years.

Turkish national Ramazan Zorlu, 43, had pleaded guilty to trafficking.

Zorlu was arrested alongside Ali Riza Gun, 47, in raids in London last year. Gun had also pleaded guilty and will be sentenced at a later date.

Scotland Yard described the operation, codenamed Bluesky, which involved thousands of people, as its biggest investigation into human smuggling.

A judge at Croydon Crown Court said Zorlu should be deported once he finished serving his sentence.

The smuggling network run by Zorlu, Gun and another Turkish national, Hassan Eroglu, ran into millions of pounds.


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