"The UK sanctioned Balkans-based gangs and financiers who it said facilitated small boat crossings across the English Channel. The UK Foreign Office said the sanctions, which include asset freezes and travel bans, targeted criminal gangs involved in "illegal migration to the UK." The sanctions came as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted European leaders at a Western Balkans summit to discuss migration and economy."
""There's a criminal route through the Western Balkans bringing illegal migrants to the UK, and we're determined to shut it down by working with European partners," Starmer said at the summit. Starmer's center-left government imposed sanctions on members of what it described as a Kosovo-based "organised crime group responsible for producing false documents and supplying them to criminal gangs." It also sanctioned a man it said was the leader of a Croatian gang supplying false Croatian passports to Balkan gangs."
The UK imposed sanctions including asset freezes and travel bans on Balkans-based gangs and financiers it said facilitated small-boat crossings across the English Channel. The measures targeted a Kosovo-based organised crime group producing and supplying false documents and a Croatian gang leader supplying false Croatian passports. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted a Western Balkans summit with European leaders to coordinate migration and economic responses. More than 35,000 people have crossed the Channel this year, risking dangerous journeys and deaths. Rising crossings reflect wider concerns about asylum system failures and domestic political pressure from anti-immigration forces.
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