To follow a smuggling behind the tragic Atlantic Migrant Travel

In January, a migrant boat was saved from the coast of North Africa after the 14th days lost in the sea. Many people died on the journey, many of them lied by smugglers who promised safe and legal routes for Europe. BBC Verification followed one of the merchants responsible – he documented his activities on three continents.

Punjabi Rep Music plays on a video showing three men in a beach restaurant in the city of Nouakchott, Mauritania. One followed by another, they accidentally speak and smile on the camera before laughing together.

Three are obviously friends. Two of them, Sufian Ali and Atif Prince, the village is a cousin from Pakistan.

However, especially the conversation is the third person. He is Fadi Gujjar, a folk smoker.

Video – Sent to Gujjar’s Tiktok – One of the more than 450 clips analyzed by the BBC, check that clues about his activities and other men.

This video was placed online within a month, Ali and Prince was dead – the ship sold by Gujjar was dead on his journey.

Meanwhile, Gujjar missed himself, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) asked for the role of the tragedy.

When the BBC communicates with a surviving phone number, Gujjar said in connection with the disaster, the survivors of the dawn and in the hands of God.

Fadi Gujjar is from Jaurah in Pakistan’s Punjab district. His true name in his 30s is Khawar Hassan – although Bishi Gujjar also passes.

Pakistan smugglers BBC has previously reported They eager to brag about the illegal routes online.

But Gujjar is attentive. Its online is limited to high-edited videos of their journeys and almost all customer verification verification is local for local Jaurah. Advertisements for services appear to be spread by mouth.

The current location on Facebook is an oasis who wants to make a flash of a flash, fast, for the Turkish – blacks. Videos sent to Tıtokar, place in the city since July 2022, the peacekeeper showed the smuggler outside the double Sofia and Pakistan supermarket.

Another location differs: the nerve center of the Mauritania in the Atlantic coast of West Africa – where the migrant ship began a dangerous journey.

Since 2023, the International Migration Organization (IOM) says Mauritania has become a hub for people who smuggle – a pressure on other routes.

The route is fatal. BMOM Data shows that this year, including 14 children, died, including 14 children.

Many Pakistani people looking for economic opportunities in Europe are ready to take risks. Life is an online glory by migrants living on the continent. Smugglers like Gujjar, where people burned with people’s desires.

These migrants take a gambling to use the deposits of families or to travel. We talked about the average, let’s say that they pay Gujjar $ 13,000 (£ 10,000).

There are no direct flights from Pakistan to Mauritania, so some of some migrants moved to Ethiopia or the Middle East. From there, almost all went to Senegal before crossing Mauritania before the road or a short ship trip along the Senegal River.

Gujjar’s travel history – was approved by a source received by the BBC – in 2024 in 2024 and followed a similar route to the Dakar airport in Senegal.

Multiple videos receive it from the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott in Nouakchott – although the loading date may differ when the date is taken.

Additional clips, Ali and Prince of August 2024 sent to Tiktok by Gujjar. Located in Mauritania in early third August. The trio was seen in the roofs of Nouakchott’s sand-colored buildings and in restaurants around the city – the luxury could not afford other migrants.

Videos from their accounts have announced that men are full of the same village and close. Ahrami, Ahsan Şahzad Chaudhry, BBC’s nephew Sufian Ali’nin Gujjar confirmed that he was friendly.

A surviving with Uzair Bhat, therefore promised him safe and legal trails to Europe. Under the real name of Gujjar, the BBC confirmed the approval of the funds transferred to a bank account.

However, when Mauritania came to Mauritania, smuggling was retreated.

“He said to go by air. I will not work here. I will send you a big ship.” “Please do not cooperate, your visa (to Europe) will not pass.”

As a result, the prizair was bent.

Ali, Shazad and Facilities, BBC identified the other two migrants traveling from Gujjar.

After coming to Nouakchott, they said they were placed in “safe houses” – a term used for buildings bent in the dark alleys in which the migrants were illegally illegally.

A person who uses a different agent, said he was in safe houses managed by Gujjar.

BBC inspection confirmed that the survivors are in an area in an area near the Nouakchott port, which is sometimes visited by Gujjar.

Living BBC, on January 2, in the early hours of a small fisherman ship talked to say that they left Nouakchott. The majority of the plane was smuggled in their homeland in Pakistan.

However, the three-day trip turned into a two-week trip to death in the sea.

The Uzair said, “Water from the boat” from the day they left the ports, he said. Another man, Bilalwal Iqbal, passengers soon said “people were delirous after drinking sea water and drink.”

According to Survivers, West Africans working on the plane – the West Africans working by smugglers – Pakistani meals and water were hungrily and beaten daily.

“I tried to take one of the water water so they hit the head by a rope and the blow was just back me.” “Then they closed my thumbs with a hammer. I still have those wounds.”

Sufian Ali and Atif Prince died after death before the crew death and his uncle said. He was informed about the cases around his death by those survivors.

Others died of hunger, dehydration and hypothermia.

Those who still live, including the crew, gave up a larger fishing ship. The Uzair jumped into Bhat Ocean and turned to him to help him.

CoastGuard instructed the ship to show the migrant boat to the port of the hut – 60 miles. According to BMOM, 35 people were missing in the sea and the dead were 15 corpses.

The Pakistani government called Gujjar as one of the ten smugglers in the tragedy. Some were arrested, but not Gujjar.

The BBC geolokatized the latest Tiktok posts to Baku, Azerbaijan, although we can still say that there is still there.

Since the rescue news was violated, one of his mother and brothers was arrested in Pakistan, accused of giving money from Guzistan to Europe on behalf of Guzistan.

BBC verification also saw the report of the six police officers provided by the families of the people on the ship’s journey. Gujjar claims that they collect $ 75,000 (£ 56,000) for the role in the January disaster. Three people were fully, only the remaining three were only paid during the period he paid.

We believe that Gujjar makes traveling to Europe after the ship’s disaster in January.

Using a phone number obtained from those who lived, Gujjar, who was contacted by a secret BBC correspondent, said they said, “he will recognize someone” that helps to organize a journey, but said they did not suggest to him.

Additional report by Dilay Yacin, Sumroo and Joshua Cheetham.