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Kurdish Crime Network Exploits Migrants in UK Mini-Marts
11/5/2025
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Story summary
- A Kurdish criminal network in the United Kingdom exploits migrants in mini-marts.
- An undercover BBC investigation shows asylum seekers run these businesses without rights and sell illegal cigarettes and vapes.
- Workers earn as little as £4 per hour.
- The operation links to over 100 businesses with ghost directors and connects barber shops to money laundering.
- Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood condemned the organized crime.
