Key people smugglers slapped with order to stop future criminality
Eglantin Doksani, Mai Van Nguyen and Richard Styles are now subject to Serious Crime Prevention Orders which are designed to frustrate criminality and protect the public.
The courts grant the orders and limit their opportunities to continue their illegal activities and making them less attractive to organised crime gangs looking to recruit.
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The order can also restrict the number of mobile phones or computers that offenders can access and limit the amount of cash they can carry.
It can also require them to surrender passports and financial information.
Eglantin Doksani was made the subject of an SCPO for his role in the movement of hundreds of migrants into the United Kingdom using small boats over the Channel.
Doksani was sentenced to nine years and nine months in prison in July 2024 and was given a five-year Serious Crime Prevention Order, which will become live upon release from prison.
Doksani acted as an agent for migrants and arranged spaces on boats and was in direct contact with people smugglers operating in Europe.
His order includes restrictions around his communication devices, possession of money and bank accounts, notification of finances and assets, notification of travel outside the United Kingdom, and prohibition on the possession of official documentation—preventing him from having official identity documents that do not belong to him or family members or for anyone not residing in the same address.
As part of the order he will also have to give the NCA notification of his residence.
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People smuggler Mai Van Nguyen was also made the subject of a five-year SCPO for moving Vietnamese illegal migrants into the United Kingdom in the backs of lorries.
He was jailed for five-and-a-half years in November 2023, and on 24 February 2025, a jury found him guilty of further charges relating to the exploitation of migrants being made to work in cannabis farms run by his gang.
His order includes restrictions around communication devices, possession of cash, notification of finances and assets, and notification of premises both within and outside the UK.
Richard Styles was also made subject of a five-year SCPO after being jailed for 12 years for his role in a plot to smuggle four Albanians into the United Kingdom by flying them to an airfield in Northamptonshire.
Styles was a qualified pilot who flew to Belgium to meet an associate and then flew the four migrants into the United Kingdom. He was arrested upon landing the plane and convicted of facilitating a breach of immigration law.
His order includes restrictions on communication devices, the prohibition of private aircraft, restrictions on travel and travel documents, the prohibition of importations, and notification requirements for entry to airports or airfields or the boundaries of an airport or airfield.
Alison Abbott, Head of the NCA's Prison and Lifetime Management Unit, said: "Offenders involved in organised crime groups so often think they can return to their criminal ventures once they are released from prison.
"But making them subject to Serious Crime Prevention Orders mean we will continue to monitor their activity and prevent them from engaging in further criminality.
"These men were key players in organised immigration crime and their SCPOs mean they will be less attractive for recruitment to criminal groups, and even communicating with them will be risky.
"Organised immigration crime remains a priority for the NCA and these orders show we will use all powers available to us to dismantle criminal gangs and prevent further harm to the people they exploit.
"Orders are enforced by the NCA and action is taken against offenders who breach the terms of their orders."
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