Overview

• Two Ukrainian nationals, 37 and 43, have been charged with facilitating illegal immigration and are due before Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court.
• Border Force officers intercepted the yacht on July 20 off the Isle of Wight and escorted it to Gosport Marina for questioning.
• Five migrants—four Albanians and one Vietnamese—remain in National Crime Agency custody, and an additional Albanian suspect was detained on a separate drug warrant.
• The operation forms part of a sustained NCA-led campaign conducted alongside French judicial authorities and the Gendarmerie Nationale.
• Further prosecutions are expected as UK and French agencies continue to target organised cross-Channel people-smuggling networks.