Overview
- The National Crime Agency, which led coordinated raids Wednesday, arrested two men aged 27 and 29 on suspicion of money laundering who remain in custody.
- The operation drew support from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Police and Immigration Enforcement, coordinated through the EMSOU Disruption Team.
- Officers detained the suspects in Radford, Nottingham, and in Folkestone, Kent, after linked searches at businesses and a home in Derby.
- Raids hit two car washes on Woodhouse Way in Nuthall and Beechdale Road in Aspley, plus a barber shop on Radford Road in Hyson Green.
- The NCA says the network brought people into the UK on small boats and then placed them in East Midlands jobs in the grey economy.