A lorry driver who smuggled migrants for a London-based people smuggling gang has been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation. Vasile Balcovei, 49, from Tulcea in Romania, dropped two individuals he had smuggled into the UK at Thurrock Services in Essex in February 2021.
He was working for an organised crime group headed by Mohammed Mokter Hossain, 54, from Woodford Green and was sentenced 32 months in jail at Canterbury Crown Court.
