Five members of an organised crime group who confiscated migrants’ passports as part of a ‘debt bondage’ scheme have been jailed.
The migrants were smuggled into the UK via France as part of a huge £1.6million money laundering scheme which was run by 31-year-old twin brothers Vinh Van Nguyen and Quang Van Nguyen.
Vinh and Quang lured Vietnamese asylum seekers to Britain with Facebook adverts for people smuggling into Europe which promised an ‘end-to-end service’.
Once they reached France, the migrants had their passports taken away from them before they travelled into the UK on small boats or lorries.
The stolen passports were then used as a
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