Prison for pair who preyed on vulnerable immigrants

TWO men have been jailed for a total of 10 years after ripping off vulnerable migrants in an immigration fraud uncovered by The Herald.

Law graduate Yousaf Amin was sentenced to six years while his school friend and accomplice Sajad Khan was imprisoned for four years.

Both men admitted fraud last week after their arrest for orchestrating the scam, which they ran from rented offices in Glasgow, Leeds and Luton.

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Seven arrested in London over alleged people smuggling

UK Border Agency officials raided several homes in north and central London at dawn .

Four males and one female aged 23, 23, 29, 38 and 56 were detained in Mill Hill, a 44-year-old man was arrested in Edgware and another 46, was picked up in Kensington.

All were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to facilitate an asylum seeker for gain and are now being questioned at police stations in London.

This followed a joint investigation with the Spanish Guardia Civil into an alleged criminal network suspected of assisting Iranian migrants into the UK from Europe.

The network is alleged to have organised travel and provided false documents to their clients to facilitate their arrival at UK airports.

Co-ordinated action by the Guardia Civil saw eleven people arrested during raids in Madrid and Alicante in Spain.

Pair jailed over fake qualifications scam exposed by the Post

TWO men have been jailed for a total of 10 years for running an immigration scam worth up to half a million pounds which was exposed by the Yorkshire Post.

Yousaf Amin and Sajad Khan fleeced hundreds of unsuspecting immigrants by providing fake English language courses which purported to offer genuine qualifications required by the Home Office when applying for British citizenship.

The fraudsters, both 34 and from Bradford, also set up an illegal immigration advice service despite Amin previously being jailed and banned for life after a previous fake work permit scam.

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