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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Mitchell

Two Ukrainian men jailed for running ‘premium people-smuggling taxi service’ across the English Channel

The intercepted yacht - (National Crime Agency)

Two Ukrainian men who ran a "premium bespoke taxi service" smuggling migrants into the UK aboard a yacht have been jailed.

Vladyslav Cherniavskyi, 38, received six years, and Oleksandr Yavtushenko, 43, five years, after both pleaded guilty at Portsmouth Crown Court to three charges of assisting unlawful immigration.

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