A people smuggler has boasted of getting 300 migrants across the Channel to the UK.
The Afghan fixer named Anam told undercover reporters that he helps set up speedboat crossings to the UK for £6,000 per person in a speedboat.
He said he can also set up the crossing in a riskier three-metre dinghy for the lower price of £2,500.
But he claimed he didn’t take the payments himself and instead they had to be made via family or friends to an Indian restaurant in west London.
He said he could virtually make a guarantee of residency in Britain to would-be migrants because the police ‘never send you back’ even if they ‘catch you’.
Anam, 28, is based in Calais and said he has already been booted out of the UK twice.
Using a British mobile phone to run the illegal operation, he claims to have helped 300 migrants reach these shores.
The investigation comes after Home Secretary Sajid Javid this week pledged to crack down on migrants who cross the Channel in small boats, following a spate of such crossings in December.
In 2018, 504 migrants tried to cross the Channel in small boats, and since January 1, a further 25 have attempted the journey.
Undercover reporters from the Sun newspaper spoke to Anam after receiving a tip-off about a ‘smuggling mafia’ of Afghans and Kurds in a migrant camp at Calais.
They were were directed to two Afghans, called Mazhari and Watan, who vowed: Our agent will get your man to England.