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UK to introduce 'world first' sanctions regime to target people smugglers

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Foreign Secretary David Lammy will announce a new sanctions regime this year .

He says it will starve smuggling gangs of "illicit finance fuelling their operations" If it works like other sanctions regimes, it could mean asset freezes on those suspected of people smuggling.

Breaches of the measures could be punishable by up to seven years in prison.

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