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15 January 2010
Gang jailed for running bogus College
- Four people who ran a bogus college and a corrupt immigration advisory firm have been jailed for a total of 25 years for masterminding an immigration scam that is thought to have netted them millions of pounds. The four were all arrested after a joint investigation by the UK Border Agency's immigration crime team and the Metropolitan Police.
- At the heart of the gang's conspiracy was a bogus college which they set up, purporting to offer genuine courses of education but in fact offering none.
For payments sometimes amounting to thousands of pounds, the gang provided fake documents and certificates to allow their 'clients' to gain visas to stay in the UK.
- The gang also set up a legal services company, which claimed to provide advice to students from China and the Far East who wanted to extend their visas, and helped prepare immigration applications which were then supported by the false documents they had manufactured. The whole operation is thought to have netted them in excess of £4.5 million.
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