Lankans arrested in UK
October 11, 2010 03:39 pm
Five people, including two Sri Lankan nationals, were arrested for various immigration offences including facilitating breach of UK immigration laws and money laundering, says the British High Commission in Sri Lanka.
A press release from the British High Commission stated that a further twenty-five people, mainly understood to be Sri Lankan nationals, were also arrested for immigration offences at a number of locations in Sussex and Surrey. The UK Border Agency will seek to remove those found to be working in the UK illegally.
In one of the largest enforcement operations ever undertaken, the UK Border Agency and police officers undertook a series of raids on twenty-one locations in Sussex, Surrey and Kent at the end of September. These raids followed an eight month investigation by the UK Border Agency´s South East Immigration Crime Team into a gang suspected of facilitating illegal working by immigrants for an employment agency in Crawley, Surrey.