Morocco

Horgos, Serbia

Mohammed TETWANI is an involved person under the Global Irregular Migration Sanctions Regulations 2025 on the basis of the following grounds: He has been responsible for or engaged in a relevant activity, namely people smuggling. With a view to obtaining, whether directly or indirectly, a gain or benefit, he was responsible for the unlawful arrival of persons into a country of a person who is not a national of that country or permanently resident in it. Namely, as leader of the TETWANI people smuggling gang, known as one of the most violent gangs, he controlled one of the makeshift migrant camps near Horgos in Serbia, close to the border with Hungary, and charged fees per person to organise illegal crossings. He referred to himself as the "King of Horgos”,and issued fake passports with his seal on the paper. He also facilitated smuggling of Tunisian migrants to France.

2025-07-23

UK

The Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025

UK horizontal

Human Rights

Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans

The global irregular migration and trafficking in persons sanctions (GIM) regime was established on 23 July 2025 via the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons Sanctions Regulations 2025. The primary legislation underpinning the Regulations is the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. The sanctions regime allows the UK government to impose sanctions to tackle people-smuggling, trafficking in persons and the instrumentalisation of migration for the purpose of destabilisation around the world. The regime is not intended to target individual countries or individual migrants. Rather, it is intended to target those that exploit some of the most vulnerable in society, putting lives at risk for their own gain and profiting from the dangerous smuggling and trafficking of innocent people. The measures which can be imposed under the GIM sanctions regime are travel bans, asset freezes, and director disqualifications.