Barzan Kamal Majeed, 36, nicknamed ‘Scorpion’, has been arrested in Iraq following a police sting, it has emerged.
Asayish, the Kurdish region’s security forces, on Monday announced that Majeed, a human trafficker who masterminded an organised crime group which tried to smuggle more than a hundred migrants into Britain, had been taken into custody.
Majeed, originally from Nottingham, had been missing since November 2022 when he failed to appear in court in Belgium for a sentencing hearing.
‘Following the launch of an investigation, Asayish forces, based on exchange of intel and upon the request of Interpol and as per a ruling by the judge, a great human trafficker and smuggler was arrested,’ Asayish told Rudaw Media Network today.
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