An Iraqi refugee who assisted in the smuggling of up to 3,000 people into the UK has been arrested.<\/p>\n
Basak Ahmed Sleman, aged 33, took advantage of his stay in the country by illegally smuggling 20 people a day into the UK five days a week since May 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n He is also fighting extradition to Belgium, after he stands accused of running a gang in a major human-trafficking operation.<\/p>\n Despite a string of previous convictions for using fraudulent identity documents, Sleman has been given leave to remain in the UK.<\/p>\n Sleman has lived in the UK for 15 years.<\/p>\n He argues that extraditing him violates his human rights.<\/p>\n Sleman is wanted by the authorities in Belgium for their connections to a Kurdish criminal network which exploited asylum seekers.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Iraqi refugee who assisted in the smuggling of up to 3,000 people into the UK has been arrested. Basak Ahmed Sleman, aged 33, took advantage of his stay in the country by illegally smuggling 20 people a day into the UK five days a week since May 2015. He is also fighting extradition to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":62931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n