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Men behind 'Tripadvisor for people smugglers' jailed for 19 years
Dilshad Shamo (41) and Ali Khdir (40), two Iraqi Kurdish men living legally in the UK, have been sentenced to 19 years each in prison for operating a large-scale people-smuggling ring out of a Caerphilly car wash. Dubbed a "Tripadvisor for people smugglers" by the National Crime Agency (NCA), their two-year operation moved hundreds of migrants from Iraq, Iran, and Syria to European countries weekly via tiered, rated services, using the informal Hawala banking system to avoid traceable transactions and retain untraceable profits.
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Men behind 'Tripadvisor for people smugglers' jailed for 19 years
Apr 10, 2026, 6:16 PM
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