{"id":72410,"date":"2024-10-28T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/people-smuggler-reveals-operation-to-help-vietnamese-reach-uk-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:43:56","slug":"people-smuggler-reveals-operation-to-help-vietnamese-reach-uk-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/people-smuggler-reveals-operation-to-help-vietnamese-reach-uk-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"People smuggler reveals operation to help Vietnamese reach UK | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prolific Vietnamese people smuggler, who entered the UK illegally this year in a small boat, has told the BBC <!--more--> he forges visa documents for other Vietnamese who plan to make the same crossing.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who we are calling Thanh, is now claiming UK asylum and told us he has spent almost 20 years &#8211; his entire adult life &#8211; in the smuggling industry.<\/p>\n<p>He has been in prison, led a gang working on the northern coast of France, and claims to have helped more than 1,000 people to risk their lives to cross the Channel.<\/p>\n<p>The self-confessed criminal met the BBC at a secret location to share detailed information about the mechanics of the international smuggling industry.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prolific Vietnamese people smuggler, who entered the UK illegally this year in a small boat, has told the BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}