Man charged after three held over people smuggling

One of three men arrested as part of an investigation into people smuggling with police in Belgium has been charged.

The South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) worked with Belgian law enforcement to arrest two men in Bournemouth.

A man in Belgium was also held and five men, believed to be intending to travel to the UK by lorry, were stopped.

Ibrahim Sollaku, 33, from Priory Road, Southampton, has been charged with conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration into the UK and possession with intent to supply Class A drugs - he is due at Poole Magistrates' Court on Friday.

A second man arrested in Bournemouth on suspicion of the same conspiracy has been released on police bail.

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