{{notability|1=Biographies|date=June 2025}} {{Short description|Kurdish human trafficker}} {{Infobox criminal | name = Hewa Rahimpur | image = | image_caption = | birth_name = Hewa Sherzad Rahimpur | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age| April 1993}} | birth_place = Sanandaj, Iran | conviction_penalty = 11 years imprisonment and €80,000 | conviction_status = In prison | citizenship = Iranian }}
'''Hewa Sherzad Rahimpur''' (born April 1993) is a Kurdish human trafficker. He was thought to have charged up to £6,000 for people on the boats, with total profits sometimes exceeding £200,000 per passage.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bettiza |first1=Sofia |last2=Boelpaep |first2=Bruno |title=People-smuggling ringleader jailed for bringing thousands into UK in boats |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67145474 |access-date=20 November 2024 |publisher=BBC News |date=18 October 2023 |location=Brussels |language=en}}</ref>
== Life == Hewa Sherzad Rahimpur was born in Sanandaj, Iran in April 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hewa Sherzad Rahimpur |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/0L0lWNcC6ekRAmRYKouSzv__Tz4/appointments |publisher=Companies House |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Who is Hewa Rahimpur and why was he caught? |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2022/05/05/suspected-channel-people-smuggling-kingpin-in-court-for-extradition-hearing/ |access-date=20 November 2024 |website=shropshirestar |date=19 October 2023}}</ref> His family of Kurdish origin was poor and had many children.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clare Martin |first1=Amy |title=Kiosk owner who sold sweets unmasked as kingpin who smuggled 10,000 migrants to Britain in small boats |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hewa-rahimpur-people-smuggling-channel-small-boats-b2431296.html |access-date=20 November 2024 |newspaper=The Independent |date=18 October 2023}}</ref>
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