Two men who ran a people smuggling ring from Caerphilly to move thousands of migrants across Europe have been convicted following a National Crime Agency investigation.
On the surface, Dilshad Shamo, 41, and Ali Khdir, 40, appeared to be running a successful car wash franchise in the Welsh town.
However, they were actually under surveillance by NCA investigators who had uncovered their roles in a huge people smuggling ring. The investigation was supported by Gwent Police.
Shamo and Khdir were working as part of a larger OCG to facilitate the movement of migrants from Iraq, Iran and Syria through Turkey, Belarus, Moldova and Bosnia and ending in Italy, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Germany and France.
Many of them are suspected of arriving in the UK.
