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Mustaf Cunaj, 41, was part of a network of traffickers, which smuggled some 10,000 migrants into the UK. He has now been jailed for nine years.
Mustaf Cunaj charged as much as £7,500 to arrange for migrants to cross the English Channel in small boats.
Investigators found hundreds of phone messages linking Ujeza Kurmekaj to people smuggling.
The pictures of 21 Albanian IDs and passports were found when Ujeza Kurmekaj's phone was searched - nine of which belonged to people that had crossed in to the UK in a small boat, the National Crime Agency said.
Albanian-born Ujeza Kurmekaj, 32, facilitated crossings for Albanian nationals.