Meanwhile, Sivakumar, who had previously been convicted for trying to smuggle someone into the UK in the boot of his car, was also arrested. The surveillance team was waiting for the plane when it returned to the country the next day. Investigators believe the men were in contact with an Albanian, known as Tim K, who arranged for the passengers to meet him in Belgium. Turchet had paid for the jet to be stored in a hangar before the flight on March 23. The NCA found he had worked with former pilot Turchet to rent the six-seater Piper Seneca for £1,500. Joking as he was arrested by officers, he said: “I normally get arrested for drugs, so it is a bit strange.” Styles, from Hertfordshire, was arrested at Deenethorpe Airfield near Corby, in Northamptonshire after flying a twin-engine plane to the airfield from Belgium with three men and a woman on board who were attempting to evade immigration checks. Richard Styles was arrested alongside Silvano Turchet and Vijayakumar Sivakumar after the National Crime Agency thwarted their plan in March last year. LONDON: A British pilot has been jailed for being involved in a plot to smuggle four Albanians from Belgium into Britain.
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