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Evening Standard
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Tamara Davison

People smugglers who ran 'VIP yacht service' for migrants to cross channel jailed

The people smugglers were intercepted on a yacht - (National Crime Agency)

Two Ukrainian men who ran a ‘VIP’ people smuggling service have been jailed.

Vladyslav Cherniavskyi, 37, was sentenced to six years in prison, and Oleksandr Yavtushenko, 43, was handed a five-year prison sentence after running what a CPS prosecutor called an “illegal migrant taxi service across the English Channel.”

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