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UK-registered firms linked to payments for small-boat crossings, BBC finds
Key takeaways
- We secretly filmed staff at a shop in south-east London telling an undercover researcher that nearly £3,000 in cash could be deposited with them and sent to a smuggler in France.
- If your friends reach [the UK], you shouldn't come back," we were told at the mobile phone store in Woolwich.
- Our findings suggest a "brazen attitude" by smugglers, says Tom Keatinge, from the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) security think tank.
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William Mc Lennan,Colin Campbelland Josie Hannett,BBC Local Investigations Watch: "You put your money here," says shop worker offering to take cash for people smugglers People smugglers are directing migrants to pay for illegal Channel crossings using a network of UK-registered businesses, a BBC investigation has found.
We secretly filmed staff at a shop in south-east London telling an undercover researcher that nearly £3,000 in cash could be deposited with them and sent to a smuggler in France.
"You put your money here. If your friends reach [the UK], you shouldn't come back," we were told at the mobile phone store in Woolwich.
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