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The UK will develop a new sanctions regime to cripple people smuggling crime rings and starve them of illicit finance fueling their operations.
Gov.UK – the United Kingdom’s website – reports that the UK will develop a new sanctions regime to cripple people smuggling crime rings and starve them of illicit finance fuelling their operations.
The Foreign Secretary will reveal plans to bring forward legislation for a new sanctions regime targeting irregular migration and organised immigration crime to secure UK borders in a decade of national renewal.
As the world’s first standalone sanctions regime dedicated to targeting irregular migration and organized crime, kt will allow the UK to target individuals and entities enabling dangerous journeys.
As part of the Plan for Change, the government is committed to reducing small boat crossings and net migration, ending the routine use of asylum hotels, meeting the government/s fiscal rules and strengthening national security.
The regime is expected to come into force within the year. It will target organized immigration networks. Criminal networks are making huge profits by exploiting vulnerable people by facilitating irregular migratory movements, including dangerous sea crossings across Europe.
Sanctions experts from across the Government will work with law enforcement and operational Home Office colleagues to deliver an effective and targeted regime that stems finance flows at their source and deters smugglers from profiting off the trafficking of innocent people.
