'Labour has done NOTHING!' | Smuggling gang leader EXPOSED as network from Iraq to France uncovered

Added: 2026-05-30

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[00:00:23]Well, moving on. A new investigation has unmasked the leader of a huge people smuggling gang stretching from Iraq to France responsible for sending illegal migrants to Britain in the small boats.

[00:00:35]The kingpin Abu Hussein said his boats launch every week from Dunkirk and insists that nothing will stop them from crossing. Well, to discuss this, I'm delighted be delighted to be joined now by Mitchell Deran, one of the journalists who worked on the investigation who will be able to give us more details. Mitch Mitchell, tell us please.

[00:00:54]>> Thank you. Well, we have an Iraqi individual, Abu Hussein Alrai. This is obviously a fake name. Abu Hussein is a generic name. It's not saying John Smith, the Englishman.

[00:01:05]>> This individual claims that he's visa hanging. This terminology means essentially that he is employed in France by a company that either does not exist or one that's employing him fraudulently so he can stay in France while meanwhile he has this entire business empire stretching from France all the way back to Iraq. We have various people in Turkey, the Balkans, they have various money people who can take your finances to how to pay for it all the way back in Egypt in some cases.

[00:01:35]And I mean, how much do we think this guy is making from the small boats and from the kind of network that he's been putting together?

[00:01:43]>> So he charges if you want to come from Turkey to Greece and then get a plane on a fake passport from Greece, that's €10,000.

[00:01:51]If you want to do it cheaper, like through the back of a lorry or a van, that could be around €1,200.

[00:01:57]>> Depending on the driver, you may have some sort of security fees or other fees you may worked on this investigation.

[00:02:04]Forgive me for asking the obvious, but if we're able to track these people down and paint this picture like you've been doing and come up with names and photographs as I've seen in the media today of your investigation, why is it taking the British state so long to find these people? This was Karma's whole strategy. Smash the gangs, find the leaders, find the kingpins. Well, they're still operating. Well, the thing is they know who he is cuz I actually done a story on this in November and the Home Office put a statement out saying, "Oh, we will deal with this and deal with the loopholes that they're exploiting."

[00:02:37]>> We're now in May 2026, right?

[00:02:39]>> And they've done nothing about it. They know who he is. Essentially, um, when we had that big statement from Kama, we're going to give the police 662 million in France to deal with this issue. Eight days later, Abu Hussein Alari was on the beach with eight French police officers around him in close proximity like I am to you filming it saying, "I get people from France to Britain."

[00:03:06]>> Joanna Marong, it's completely and utterly absurd. We know who these people are. We know how they're operating. Yet still, they're just doing it in our in front of us.

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[00:05:13]>> This is and any money we throw at it for these kingpens, we're we're it's like whack-a-ole technique for the for the government. It's not working. We've had in the year 2025 we had 41,000 small boats cross that channel over 80% of them picked up with like irregular um members aboard. 76% of them were men. This is the level we're operating in. We're throwing money at France. We've just extended our deal with them. We've sent them tens of thousands um to maintain the border and it's it's not worked. They actually take up British money and what they've done is use it to enforce the border they have with Italy to stop migrants on that side. So we have to think about what is the British government actually doing?

[00:05:57]Labour said that they wanted, you know, stop the boats, crack down on this.

[00:06:02]What's the result of that?

[00:06:03]>> Kai wish Andy Bernham's come out today uh actually just a couple of hours ago saying that he's going to potentially trigger a clause around the use of asylum hotels. and he's talked about essentially uh fasttracking the closure of those hotels. But I'd suggest what the the government and people making those noises and not telling people are home is that even if the hotels were to close um a lot of those people would just be moved into HMOs, housing for multiple occupants and they'd be put into the community just in other forms.

[00:06:35]>> Yeah. Well, that is part of the problem.

[00:06:36]Look, as Joanna says, it is a bit whack-a-ole with these gangs. I think it is the right approach to try and tackle the gangs. Um, and it sort of is a vindication of that initial messaging from the government, isn't it? That 1/5ifth of small boats arrivals might be from this one this one gang. But in the story there, which is an amazing story, by the way, it's sort of extraordinary.

[00:06:57]There are a lot of things that actually vindicate some of the measures the government is taking. So he says, "Oh, believe me, there's no deportation."

[00:07:04]Well, clearly there needs to be a scaling up of deportations. there's been more than under the the previous conservative governments. The other thing is, you know, a week ago he says, I sent some young people and families to they're now in hotels. Well, closing down the hotels clearly does then have a downstream impact of how it's seen to apply for asylum in the UK. And similarly on asylum, you know, in comparing Switzerland to the UK, uh this guy sort of says, "Oh, well, don't bother with Switzerland. Let's try the UK." Well, that's why Shabbat Mammud is overhauling the asylum system. They're doing the right things. It'll take a while to take effect. As Joanna says, you know, actually the French deal, the new French deal that she signed, Shabbat Mammud, it's only just come into force, so time will tell.

[00:07:45]>> Just just briefly, Mitchell, if you put yourself in the shoes of Abu Hussein and these kingpins, is there anything we could do that would actually get them to take notice and stop sending people here illegally?

[00:07:58]>> It's really hard without the French. I did have a thought, which I think could aggravate them. A lot of their business structure is based online on these messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, etc. We have a whole part of the British army that specializes in cyber warfare.

[00:08:13]Why aren't we hacking their phones, dodoing their websites, and using our offensive cyber capabilities to just disrupt them and make their lives more miserable in doing this?

[00:08:22]>> Yeah. Well, indeed. There you go. Some uh fresh tips. Karma and Shabbat Mammud, if you're watching.