Home Office translator runs lucrative scam to free illegal immigrants from detention

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Home Office translators are running a lucrative scam to spring illegal immigrants from detention, an undercover Mail investigation has discovered. Interpreters charge £3,000 to act as witnesses to lie to a judge and secure bail for Albanians caught coming into the UK with fake passports or on small boats and lorries. The bogus guarantors vouch for the immigrants who they promise the court will stay at their home if released. But in reality they have no connection with the detainees they testify on behalf of and are happy for them to live anywhere – including beyond the control of the authorities – if bailed without a tag. Last night the Home Office launched an urgent investigating and promised ‘prompt and decisive action if necessary.’ The Solicitors’ watchdog also started a probe after a lawyer told our undercover reporter he could take the case despite being told the guarantor was being paid and had no known connection to the migrant, explaining he would prepare them for ’what is expected of them in court’. The woman organising the scam boasted it was ‘100 per cent’ successful. She explained because she and the guarantor she would arrange both worked as freelance translators for the Home Office they knew ‘everything’ about how the immigration system worked from the inside. Bogus guarantors and the detained migrants are given ‘scripts’ of what to say and shown pictures of each other to dupe judges into believing they have a connection, she said. The guarantors pay a surety, usually of £1,000, which has also been paid to them in advance by the illegal migrant or their relatives. When the undercover reporter raised concerns about the judge suspecting the fraud, she scoffed: ‘Do you think the government care? Come on, please.’ Her illicit operation was one of several fake guarantor schemes the Mail found being run by Albanians in the UK in what has become a booming market to meet the scores of immigration bail applications going to court every week. Our investigation also found: The Home Office translator organising the scam appeared on primetime TV in her homeland to criticise the treatment of Albanian migrants in the UK - even as she plotted with our reporter to dupe the British authorities. Checks on guarantors during immigration bail hearings often take just a few minutes and involve a few basic questions. Guarantors often dial into court on their mobile phones while sitting in cars and bail is granted even when their answers to questions from the Home Office representative are inaudible and their explanation for large sums of cash paid into their bank accounts taken at face value. Other Albanians post videos on social media showing how to cut off tracking tags sometimes imposed as part of immigration bail conditions.
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