Vietnamese Smuggler's UK Asylum Claim
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•Smuggler reveals how he has helped more than 1,000 people cross Channel
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Man, whom we are calling Thanh , is now claiming asylum in the UK .
He claims to have helped more than 1,000 people to risk their lives to cross the Channel.
He has been in prison, led a gang working on the northern coast of France , and is claiming asylum.
Thanh said he was trafficked to the UK in order to pay off his debt.
He said he had made up that story as part of his asylum claim.
Thanh maintains that most Vietnamese migrants are n’t trafficked, and that it is just a line used to claim asylum.
Thanh says he helped 1,000 people to get to the UK by hiding in lorries and shipping containers.
He rose within a gang to become one of its senior members.
He was arrested, tried, and imprisoned for several years in Europe before returning to Vietnam .
In 2017 , he says he re-entered the smuggling trade - only this time, he was forging documents for clients.
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