Irish People-Smuggling Gang, Accused in Deaths of 39 Vietnamese Migrants Discovered Suffocated in the Back of a Truck, Has Been Under Investigation for a Year
November 11, 2019 in News by RBN Staff
The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), which is responsible for investigating whether financial assets are the proceeds of crime, has investigated this gang over the past year. If Irish authorities thought that the gang were involved in people smuggling, it should have been shut down, which raises questions about the agency’s motives for allowing it to continue operating.
An Irish people-smuggling gang suspected of being at centre of the Essex lorry container deaths has been under investigation for a year, it has been claimed.
A specialist financial crime team in the Republic of Ireland have been looking at whether alleged members of the gang have been smuggling cigarettes and alcohol into the UK.
The news will raise questions over how they were able to continue operating and what intelligence was shared with the British authorities.
It emerged as Mo Robinson, the 25-year-old driver of the truck, appeared in court where it was alleged that he is part of a “global ring facilitating the movement of large number of illegal immigrants into the UK” and had been conspiring to traffic people for the last 10 months.
Four suspects, including three women from Nghe An province and one male from Hanoi, were also arrested by Vietnamese authorities investigating smuggling.
