Category: British passport

Home Office Under Pressure as Trial Highlights How Easy It Is to Get a Bogus Passport

May 16, 2023
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The UK Passport Office has set up a new unit to tackle organised crime after a gang used a flaw in the system to obtain passports for several international fugitives, which allowed them to keep one step ahead of the law. Three men—Christopher Zietek, Anthony Beard, and Alan Thompson—were jailed at Reading Crown Court on…

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Gang Supplied ‘Genuine’ Passports to Murderers and International Fugitives, UK Court Told

January 11, 2023
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READING, Berkshire—A British gang supplied fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to enable drug traffickers, murderers, and other fugitives to cross borders without being noticed, a court has been told. Six people went on trial at Reading Crown Court in England on Wednesday after a National Crime Agency investigation into “an organised crime group” which provided passports…

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