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Turk and Chinese gangs targetted

By Roz Upton

Updated on 31 January 2008

12 arrests in dawn raids around London in a major Metropolitan police operation tackling human trafficking.

12 people were arrested this morning in a series of raids by the Metropolitan police against Turkish and Chinese gangs suspected of people smuggling, importing heroin and money laundering.

Scotland Yard said they believed the gangs were involved in two of the largest human smuggling rings in London in the past 18 months.

Roz Upton reports.

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