The Traffickers
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| First episode date | November 13, 2016 |
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| Presented by | Nelufar Hedayat |
| Production location(s) | Global |
| Networks | Fusion TV |
| Composers | Tandis Jenhudson |
| Dec 18, 2016 | |
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| ID | 2648137 |
About The Traffickers
Nelufar Hedayat goes under the radar to expose the global black market trade. Crossing the globe from Asia to Africa, she meets the people trafficking illegal goods and the ones who set out to catch them.
Essex lorry deaths: Caolan Gormley guilty of trafficking offence
... The jury heard Gormley, of Caledon, Co Tyrone, had " close dealings" with The Traffickers overseeing the fatal trip...
Migrants to Europe dying in gun battles and car crashes
... " But the problem is that the average person doesn t make a difference between The Traffickers and the refugees...
How undercover sting outwitted pangolin traffickers
... The Traffickers were given their own codenames...
Two migrants dead, 30 missing after shipwrecks off Italian coast
... Police chief Emanuele Ricifari, who is in charge of the investigation, told local media The Traffickers would have known that rough seas were forecast...
Greece boat disaster: Two families united in grief thousands of miles apart
... " My son was picked up near the border with Libya by one of The Traffickers, who then demanded that I pay him around 140,000 Egyptian pounds ($4,300) or he d kill my son, " says Mr al-Sayyed...
France attack: Kalashnikov assault on car kills three in Marseille
... Regional prefect Frederique Camilleri told reporters at the scene that " the entire police force has been mobilised to find the perpetrators of these despicable crimes and to dismantle the networks of The Traffickers behind this violence"...
Cocaine smuggling submarine reveals Europe's drug crisis
... On a table at the far end of the room are dozens of brown parcels, each the size of a house brick, emblazoned with a Superman logo - the symbol chosen by The Traffickers who no doubt felt a sense of invincibility...
Tunisia migrant boat shipwrecks leave 27 dead or missing
... Mr Masmoudi, the Sfax court spokesperson, said it was crucial that The Traffickers themselves are detained, as he announced investigations into both boat accidents...
Essex lorry deaths: Caolan Gormley guilty of trafficking offence
By Lewis Adams and Jeremy BrittonBBC News, Essex
A haulier has been convicted for his part in a people smuggling operation that killed 39 Vietnamese migrants.
Caolan Gormley, 26, was found guilty of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration at the Old Bailey.
The bodies were found in a lorry trailer near Purfleet, Essex, on 23 October 2019.
The Jury heard Gormley, of Caledon, Co Tyrone, had " close dealings" with The Traffickers overseeing the fatal trip.
He is the 11th defendant to be convicted in connection with the deaths and he is due to be sentenced on Friday.
The haulier claimed during his two-week trial that he believed he was only involved in smuggling illegal alcohol into the UK.
But The Court heard Gormley was an associate of one of the smuggling ringleaders, Ronan Hughes , who he had known since he was a teenager.
Hughes and a Romanian national, Gheorghe Nica, had a network of drivers who were from Europe into the UK, The Prosecution said.
Gormley, who ran a small haulage business, passed on messages from Hughes to one of his own drivers, Christopher Kennedy , who was involved in transporting the trailers full of migrants.
On 23 October, the trailer had been collected by a different driver, Maurice Robinson, who discovered the bodies.
" Realising The Migrants were dead he contacted not The Police , but Hughes, " said prosecutor Ben Holt.
Giving evidence in his defence, Gormley told jurors he was in " shock" and " total disbelief" when he heard The Victims were dead.
The Jury deliberated for One Hour and 15 Minutes and Gormley was remanded in custody.
Source of news: bbc.com
