Polish truck driver fined for transporting illegal immigrants to Great Britain

A Polish truck driver apprehended in Great Britain will have to pay L18,000 for transporting illegal immigrants. He drove his truck loaded with paper from Kostrzyn, then claimed he found nine people, allegedly Balkans, in the truck, and reported this to the police in Dover. The police confiscated the truck and the driver's documents. "The Immigration Office did not accuse me of being a smuggler. That means that I shouldn't have reported anything to the police, but instead continued to drive these people farther and let them go anywhere they wanted. I was punished for integrity," commented the driver. British authorities explained that a penalty and vehicle confiscation are routine, whether or not the driver reports the incident to the police. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A6)