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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Monday, 3 December 2012
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
German Victims, Foreign Perpetrators: Identitarian Movement Marks the Crime Scenes
Enough is enough.We can no longer be silent.
They are sending an English translation I will post it when I get it
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
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.
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.
Monday, 26 November 2012
Rotherham man in drug-pushing case challenges convictions
Omar Sadique was arrested after detectives smashed a drug supply organisation near Sittingbourne.
He was convicted at Maidstone Crown Court in February of assisting in the supply of class A and B drugs and conspiracy to supply cocaine.
But the 30-year-old, of Regent Street, Kimberworth, was given the go-ahead for a full appeal hearing, after his lawyers argued his convictions were “unsafe”.
The prosecution case at trial was that Sadique, through a business he owned and ran, sold chemicals to the Kent gang which were then used as cutting agents to 'bulk out' illicit drugs.
Sadique denied any wrongdoing, but was found guilty of the offences following a five-week trial with a number of other defendants.
His lawyers now argue his convictions should be overturned by the Appeal Court, because of legal issues relating to the validity of the charges that were brought against him.
Saying that careful consideration needed to be given to the case, Lord Justice Laws ordered there should be a day-long hearing of Sadique’s case — before three senior judges — at an unspecified later date.
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He was convicted at Maidstone Crown Court in February of assisting in the supply of class A and B drugs and conspiracy to supply cocaine.
But the 30-year-old, of Regent Street, Kimberworth, was given the go-ahead for a full appeal hearing, after his lawyers argued his convictions were “unsafe”.
The prosecution case at trial was that Sadique, through a business he owned and ran, sold chemicals to the Kent gang which were then used as cutting agents to 'bulk out' illicit drugs.
Sadique denied any wrongdoing, but was found guilty of the offences following a five-week trial with a number of other defendants.
His lawyers now argue his convictions should be overturned by the Appeal Court, because of legal issues relating to the validity of the charges that were brought against him.
Saying that careful consideration needed to be given to the case, Lord Justice Laws ordered there should be a day-long hearing of Sadique’s case — before three senior judges — at an unspecified later date.
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Saturday, 24 November 2012
BELGIUM BOOTS OUT UNEMPLOYED MIGRANTS
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JOBLESS foreigners are being forcibly ejected from Belgium.(Ex).JOBLESS
foreigners are being forcibly ejected from Belgium following a public
outcry at a massive surge in immigration, it was revealed yesterday. Belgian
authorities have introduced a law allowing the withdrawal of residency
rights from any newcomers remaining unemployed for six months after
arriving in the country. The crackdown is being seen as a huge
turnaround for the country that is home to many EU institutions and was
previously seen as one of the most welcoming nations in Europe for
migrants.
Euro MP Derek Clark, the Ukip employment spokesman, said: “Amazingly the Belgians seem to have a better idea as to their own interests than we do. If they can do it to protect their taxpayers and welfare system, then why on earth can’t we?”Many of the migrants being turfed out of Belgium are thought to have moved there from Spain in response to the worsening Spanish recession. Some are understood to have originally migrated to Spain from Latin America.
Read the full story here.
Friday, 23 November 2012
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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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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Thursday, 22 November 2012
UK Border Agency's '100,000 Unopened Letters'
UK Border Agency (UKBA) staff dealt with a backlog of immigration cases so inefficiently that at one point 100,000 items of post were unopenedApplications were placed into an archive of unresolved cases after "very minimal work", despite the agency assuring MPs that "exhaustive" checks had been carried out
In March 2011, there were 147,000 unfinished cases that were passed to an audit unit
In a sample of 135 files examined as part of the inspection, each case had lain dormant for an average of 87 months - more than seven years - before they were reopened in 2010 for consideration.
The shortest period of inactivity was six months - the longest was an astonishing 17 years and nine months.
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Friday, 9 November 2012
Immigration Cases Spiral 'Out Of Control'
MPs warn that thousands of illegal immigrants may have to be given an amnesty to stay in the UK to clear the backlog.
The number of outstanding immigration and asylum cases rose by 25,000 in three months and is "spiralling out of control".
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http://news.sky.com/story/1009094/immigration-cases-spiral-out-of-control
Backlog of immigration cases is size of Iceland’s population, MP reveals
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/backlog-of-immigration-cases-is-size-of-icelands-population-mp-reveals-8298240.html
The number of outstanding immigration and asylum cases rose by 25,000 in three months and is "spiralling out of control".
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http://news.sky.com/story/1009094/immigration-cases-spiral-out-of-control
Backlog of immigration cases is size of Iceland’s population, MP reveals
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/backlog-of-immigration-cases-is-size-of-icelands-population-mp-reveals-8298240.html
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Police play judge and jury in too many cases, say magistrates
Police have become judge and jury dispensing inappropriate summary justice on the streets, the country’s leading magistrates have warned.
Police are criticised for on street justiceread more here
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BNP bus driver wins victory on human rights
The sacking of a Yorkshire bus driver for being a member of the far-right BNP was a breach of his human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
The decision by judges in Strasbourg yesterday follows a long legal battle by Arthur Redfearn, 56, who was sacked in 2004 from his job in Bradford driving mainly Asian adults and children with disabilities.
The chamber of the court ruled the actions of Serco Ltd breached Article 11 – the Freedom of Assembly and Association – because he was sacked only because of his membership of a political party.
The seven judges came to this conclusion on a 4-3 majority.
In its decision, the court said: “The court was struck by the fact that he had been summarily dismissed following complaints about problems which had never actually occurred, without any apparent consideration being given to the possibility of transferring him to a non-customer facing role.
“In fact, prior to his political affiliation becoming public knowledge, neither service users nor colleagues had complained about Mr Redfearn, who was considered a ‘first-class employee’.”
The judgment also criticised the fact Mr Redfearn could not bring a case of unfair dismissal against Serco in 2004 because UK law said he had not worked long enough for the firm.
The driver was forced to claim race discrimination because no unfair dismissal claim was allowed within the first year of employment.
The court said the UK had to “take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect employees, including those with less than one year’s service, from dismissal on grounds of political opinion or affiliation, either through the creation of a further exception to the one-year qualifying period under the 1996 Act or through a freestanding claim for unlawful discrimination on grounds of political opinion or affiliation”.
The judgment added: “A legal system which allowed dismissal from employment solely on account of an employee’s membership of a political party carried with it the potential for abuse and was therefore deficient.”
The court heard how Mr Redfearn worked for Serco as a driver from December 2003 until his dismissal on June 30, 2004.
In its judgment, the court said there had been no problems with his work but other employees and union officials complained after his BNP membership was revealed in a newspaper.
He was summarily dismissed when he was elected as a local councillor for the BNP.
In August 2004 he lodged a claim of race discrimination which was dismissed by an employment tribunal which found that any discrimination against him had been on health and safety grounds.
The tribunal found his continued employment could cause considerable anxiety among Serco’s passengers and their carers and there was a risk vehicles could come under attack from opponents of the BNP.
In July 2005 Mr Redfearn successfully appealed against this decision after an appeal tribunal heard no consideration had been given to any alternatives to dismissal.
But, in May 2006, the Court of Appeal allowed Serco’s appeal, finding that Mr Redfearn’s complaint was of discrimination on political and not racial grounds, which fell outside anti-discrimination laws.
Last night BNP leader Nick Griffin tweeted: “HUGE VICTORY! Human Rights Court in Strasbourg rules sacking of BNP councillor as bus driver was illegal. Congrats to Arthur Redfearn.”
Mr Griffin added: “Way now clear for all others similarly treated to claim well-deserved compensation. Great day for true democracy!”
A Serco spokeswoman said: “We are aware of the initial ruling that has been made by the European Court of Human Rights concerning the case of Arthur Redfearn and we will now digest and review the findings.”
The decision by judges in Strasbourg yesterday follows a long legal battle by Arthur Redfearn, 56, who was sacked in 2004 from his job in Bradford driving mainly Asian adults and children with disabilities.
The chamber of the court ruled the actions of Serco Ltd breached Article 11 – the Freedom of Assembly and Association – because he was sacked only because of his membership of a political party.
The seven judges came to this conclusion on a 4-3 majority.
In its decision, the court said: “The court was struck by the fact that he had been summarily dismissed following complaints about problems which had never actually occurred, without any apparent consideration being given to the possibility of transferring him to a non-customer facing role.
“In fact, prior to his political affiliation becoming public knowledge, neither service users nor colleagues had complained about Mr Redfearn, who was considered a ‘first-class employee’.”
The judgment also criticised the fact Mr Redfearn could not bring a case of unfair dismissal against Serco in 2004 because UK law said he had not worked long enough for the firm.
The driver was forced to claim race discrimination because no unfair dismissal claim was allowed within the first year of employment.
The court said the UK had to “take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect employees, including those with less than one year’s service, from dismissal on grounds of political opinion or affiliation, either through the creation of a further exception to the one-year qualifying period under the 1996 Act or through a freestanding claim for unlawful discrimination on grounds of political opinion or affiliation”.
The judgment added: “A legal system which allowed dismissal from employment solely on account of an employee’s membership of a political party carried with it the potential for abuse and was therefore deficient.”
The court heard how Mr Redfearn worked for Serco as a driver from December 2003 until his dismissal on June 30, 2004.
In its judgment, the court said there had been no problems with his work but other employees and union officials complained after his BNP membership was revealed in a newspaper.
He was summarily dismissed when he was elected as a local councillor for the BNP.
In August 2004 he lodged a claim of race discrimination which was dismissed by an employment tribunal which found that any discrimination against him had been on health and safety grounds.
The tribunal found his continued employment could cause considerable anxiety among Serco’s passengers and their carers and there was a risk vehicles could come under attack from opponents of the BNP.
In July 2005 Mr Redfearn successfully appealed against this decision after an appeal tribunal heard no consideration had been given to any alternatives to dismissal.
But, in May 2006, the Court of Appeal allowed Serco’s appeal, finding that Mr Redfearn’s complaint was of discrimination on political and not racial grounds, which fell outside anti-discrimination laws.
Last night BNP leader Nick Griffin tweeted: “HUGE VICTORY! Human Rights Court in Strasbourg rules sacking of BNP councillor as bus driver was illegal. Congrats to Arthur Redfearn.”
Mr Griffin added: “Way now clear for all others similarly treated to claim well-deserved compensation. Great day for true democracy!”
A Serco spokeswoman said: “We are aware of the initial ruling that has been made by the European Court of Human Rights concerning the case of Arthur Redfearn and we will now digest and review the findings.”
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