A car wash owner who a court heard had plotted to drug trafficked children to keep them quiet during illegal crossings to the UK has been jailed. Luan Braha was given eight years for conspiring to illegally breach immigration laws.
The North Macedonian national ran his network from his "The Boss" car wash in Staffordshire, Stoke Crown Court was told. He used it as a base to co-ordinate the smuggling of Albanian nationals from Belgium to the UK.
But his lucrative trade came to an end when West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit busted the network. He had conspired with fellow criminals in mainland Europe to bring up to 200 migrants across the channel in the back of lorries.
