BREAKING: Fugitive head of Kurdish people smuggling ring arrested at Manchester Airport
The head of a Kurdish people smuggling ring who went on the run before he could be sent to jail has been arrested at Manchester Airport. Detectives from the National Crime Agency issued an arrest warrant for Tarik Namik, 45, from Oldham, after he failed to show up for his sentencing at Manchester Crown Court last month.
Read more: Missing aristocrat Constance Marten may have 'given birth in back of car' found burnt out in Greater Manchester The NCA added: "The court had previously heard how he became the subject of an National Crime Agency investigation in 2017, and headed up an organised crime group involved in transporting migrants from Iraq and Iran to the UK hidden in the back of lorries.
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