Stolen Identities | UK Border Force | Episode 4 | FD Real Show

[Music] britain's borders are protected by 25 000 men and women at home and abroad their job is to seek out the law breakers and impostors who don't have a right to be here they are the uk board force [Music] tonight the couple who didn't exist i've lied all the time and i don't want to you know just carry this burden offline all the time an illegal worker is caught on camera red t-shirt gentleman working with a t-shirt that's you serving and serving a customer and a student is given a lecture at heathrow you've got documents by deception how you got them i don't know all right so stop messing about because this is ridiculous [Music] rising immigration in rural britain has brought an increase in illegal workers in wales enforcement teams searched the valleys for immigration offenders today officer whitmarsh knight is on route to a chinese takeaway suspected of employing illegal workers am i going to have any runners out the back and hopefully when we get in there'll be some people we can actually remove out of it as two of the team enter from the front officer whitmarsh knight covers the rear here we go hey right trying to run they're trying to run they're trying to run right two men are stopped trying to escape out of the back you turn all off please for me and there are more in the kitchen along with the boss five people are found on the premises do you speak english no do you speak english no who don't speak any english they say as officer whitmarsh knight questions one of the runners using an interpreter on the phone officer collins goes upstairs hello just you in here isn't it is anyone else up here adult mum dad yeah downstairs okay hey we've got two up here two children while two young children have been found upstairs officer whitmarsh knight has found out why this man was so keen to get away he's claiming that he arrived here illegally in 2003 that he came to sunny riska for fun and he's only been here a couple of days he admits entering britain illegally he is now arrested as officers search for documents relating to the man they just arrested they find an asylum registration card that belongs to the second man who tried to run that's immigration nationality application registration card these cards are given to asylum seekers they store fingerprints and state if they're allowed to work but it actually says employment prohibited and even bigger the bank it means that he's in the system we have checked and he is a failed asylum seeker he's absconded you working yeah downstairs no busy boy then all his appeal writer exhausted and he has since disappeared off the screen so we're looking to take him into the police station so we can get the travel document application up and running for him as well officer nick jupp interviews the father of the child found upstairs is it the two children upstairs your children no one child one child is that the boy or the jennifer jennifer is it okay he finds a passport that shows he's in britain legally via ireland irish ireland has sort of different set of immigration rules and sometimes it is easier for um foreign nationals to get irish citizenship if a child is born in ireland then it automatically qualifies for our citizenship then they're obviously allowed to stay in the uk as well because it's part of the european union so as far as i'm concerned this family is fine two out of three employees are not allowed to work but there is still one more to be interviewed officers will have to find out who she is and why she's here coming up the extraordinary case of stolen identity well i have no other identity than that sorry who's rajendra and they do let us go here for him why was paceless here and amnesia at heathrow you've forgotten where you got your certificates from haven't you how do you get a certificate from a college you don't attend the criminal investigations team at croydon deal with serious immigration crime officer tina leonette investigates cases of identity fraud just over a year ago uk border agency took a call from a woman in america she said that she and her brother had been victims of identity theft by a man and woman living as a married couple in britain so basically these two people have stolen the identities of a brother and sister they're pretending to be brother and sister for benefit claims but they're actually if not husband and wife they're certainly partners today tina's team prepare to visit the couple's home address for the first time it's a big day tina has been working on this case for six months a case that also involves serious benefit fraud so i've got an overpaint roughly about in excess of a hundred thousand pounds that's right yeah they've been claiming benefits since 2002 it will total over um a hundred thousand the real person left the uk in 1984 she went to the states to get married and she's not been back since the woman they're looking for is suspected of stealing the identity of someone called savitri nedu if she answers to this name she'll be arrested living at the same address is the woman's partner who uses the name rajendra nedu according to home office records his real name is mark singh well what we're looking for is evidence of who these people really are how long they've lived in the uk what documents they've got they've been here a long time they must have been they've established their life so we need to find out exactly what they've been doing and how hello sir uk border agency we're coming to speak to you all right yeah can you come in please thank you what's your name sir let's see we've got a living room the man has identified himself as the target mark singh what's your name please lady okay and the woman says she is savitri nedu but the team believes this name belongs to someone else you have possibly assumed the identity of somebody else and that victory native isn't your real identity okay um i'm therefore arresting you on suspicion of illegal entry uh attaining a peculiar advantage by deception and obtaining property by deception do you understand why you're under not arrest okay well just explain that we think you've taken the identity of somebody else well i have no other identity than that sorry okay right well we can we need to talk to you about the police station and you can therefore explain your first event the woman is sticking to her story officers must now search for evidence to prove her real identity it's a money order she's obviously sent home it's got this address with a different name on she's got the name which is similar to the name that we thought she really was that's possibly who she really is so that's quite good evidence already as the woman's story begins to unravel officer burkham finds some pay slips that may relate to her partner there's a pay slip here for addressing mr rv nedu so clearly he's been working at the hospital using the identity um you know sort of the sort of document you'd expect to find lying around the house of somebody who's uh who's using an identity is it mr singh who's rajendra and they do he lives at um london road there so why do you why do you have all these documents in your house then now you used to come here sorry you used to be here also used to be here so why are his documents yes all right sir no problem well we found some documents um addressed to a guy called rajendra nader and um to mention at the briefing that uh that she thought it's an identity that this gentleman has been using so i just asked him about documents and he admitted that he is using them so we think um you know he's going to be arrested for those offences as well the man confesses he's been working at a hospital canteen for five years under a false name and amongst the hall of documents officers believe they've just found the woman's real passport this is a good find in these cases it's always very hard to find out who the real person is passport says kamini sukram uh born 23rd of february 1964 guyanese looks like she's been here since 1995 when she's given six months entry as a visitor and doesn't appear to have had a stay extended since then so she's obviously assumed the id we've arrested her under sometime after 1995. kamini sukram came to britain on a six-month visit visa from guyana south america she's been here for 14 years using someone else's name with this stolen identity she's claimed just over a hundred thousand pounds in state benefits and even managed to become a british citizen she's kept quiet so far but with a house full of documents revealing 14 years of deception it's not long before the truth comes out we're not here to tell lies are we you just you know you tell the truth and that's it finish it i've lied all the time and i don't want to you know to carry this burden offline all the time it is a relief to let the judge know the truth and as i said i wanted you to let it be known [Music] each year britain welcomes 200 000 foreign students who come here to study most are genuine but some students use college documents to enter britain even though they have no intention of studying today officer lisa lee has stopped a student who tells her he's coming back to britain to continue his studies at a college in london on arrival he was very vague about what he studied didn't know very much about his subject area which is i.t what's the url what does http stand for he didn't have a clue now clearly he's been studying i.t for almost three years he should have a better idea of what's going on than that he appears to know little about his course and officer lee suspects he's not been studying at all the passenger says he's a student at churchill college in london all right do you want to just grab your hand luggage and we'll go down and get your other bag all right a bag search gives a chance to find evidence that can back up suspicions about a passenger's reasons for coming to britain you studied a diploma in it yeah but you don't know what url is or http right you never mentioned this college to me before no you didn't you've forgotten where you've got your certificates from haven't you yeah you didn't tell me about this college sir i specifically asked you and you didn't mention it officer lee has found some college certificates from a different college to the one where he says he studies you didn't tell me you went to the college of professional management studies you did not say you said you were enrolled in october 2007 at this college this says you were studying somewhere else at the time i wrote it down so how do you get a certificate from a college you don't attend mishway university have been like that we're going back upstairs and then i'm going to interview you properly you're not going to talk to me now no fair enough if you don't want to answer my questions we can send you back to india without answering my questions okay if you don't answer we can refuse your entry failure to cooperate with an immigration officer he had some documents with him some certificates from a college he's not mentioned at all um to me on arrival i specifically went through his study history in the uk and he said he studied at one place for a year and then transferred to the college he claims to be studying at now and he's got a totally different diploma from a different college that we've not come across before so how did he get that officer lee phones the college where the passenger says he's currently studying oh hello sir it's officer lee from immigration what was his attendance at your college really so why does he know nothing about his course then so he was attending when right from october 2007 all right then sir thank you bye-bye the current college he claims to be at is maintaining he has a very high percentage of attendance the college supports his story but officer lee wants to know more about the certificates she found in his bag from a different college okay this college the number is no longer in operation so i will do a quick check online and see if i can get anything else for them well it still has a website okay i've just checked the department for innovation university and skills register which colleges have to be on if students are to be given their visas or extensions of stay the college that you got this letter from is no longer on it if indeed it ever was so the phone number's not working the college isn't on the register but they do still have a website but their latest news is actually from mark may 2007 so chances are it's closed down so he's attending two colleges virtually the whole time to do the same course you can't have been in two places at once the passenger appears to have been studying at two colleges at the same time someone's not telling the truth officer lee wants to find out what he's been up to since he was given a student visa three years ago he's not a student here i can just feel it i just know from experience that he's not studying here but it's we we have to have concrete evidence that we can use to overturn his visa that's what i'm gonna go and get [Music] at a chinese takeaway in south wales two out of five workers have been arrested after trying to escape the enforcement team the manager who employed them has been a british citizen for over 20 years naturalizing the 80s he decides to help officer collins question the remaining workers you're a boss you're an employer do you have any documents to say that you can work here just so you cannot you haven't got a copy what's your immigration status so she's got to sign the machine she's been granted a silent refugee status when was he granted 1996. she was granted in 1996 she made a claim so she claimed in 1996 but when was it granted so you told me that she was allowed to work so you've seen documentation since she hasn't worked but you can't she's just said she hasn't been granted she's told her manager she's an asylum seeker he still believes he's seen paperwork that proves she can work some asylum seekers are given permission to work by uk border agency you'll need to find the documents to prove this or could face a 10 000 pound fine occasionally very rarely we give permission to work so he's looking for a document to confirm that now he's the one who's been responsible for hiring all three have you seen a passport for any of them mr trim no uh no no well it's got a fair few documents down there so with a bit of luck there'll be something in there that [Music] he can't find the documents he needs and next door all that turns up is a driving license all right that's fine you said we'll take this down and then we'll just confirm your details okay downstairs officer collins checks the woman's details on the home office database her immigration history is extensive she's had three applications to stay in britain since 1996. they've all been refused she now has a fourth application in the system for her and her child until she gets a decision she's not supposed to work and must report to the local police station every month upstairs no we we can't find anything to say that she can work she's got a report she's got to check in with this immigration and let us know where she is at all times okay so what i'm going to do is set her up on reporting i'm not going to arrest her putting in custody there's a child upstairs and everything else okay it's imperative she does that okay that way she can start getting some money because obviously she can't work here again at this point because obviously 1996 she's been here quite a long time and we can get this sorted for her better for her okay and obviously the child the manager of the takeaway is fined 20 000 pounds for employing three illegal workers it seems that apparently i'm what i'm doing is illegal it's not right so i have to wait now the two kitchen workers who tried to escape are taken to a local police station after further questioning they were released and asked to report to the police station twice a week so far they are complying coming up the plot thickens in the case of stolen identity and yet another stolen name is found mark who's indra mohan and it's rise and shine in wales hello mate immigration service got a warning to enter the premises do you want to get yourself up please [Music] in south london the criminal investigations team have arrested a couple from guyana south america for the last 14 years they've been using stolen identities to live in britain they have used an identity that's not theirs to claim benefits and they've received thousands of pounds from the public purse they've claimed just over a hundred thousand pounds in benefits as brother and sister in reality they're living together as a married couple searching through stacks of documents has revealed this woman's real name is kamini sucram now the team want evidence to prove the identity of her partner he was living here using a stolen name rajendra nadu whilst he was registered with the home office as mark singh and just now they found a bank statement with yet another name indra mohan who's indra kumar mohan then who is he to you then because the accounts in that name and your name it's a joint account indra kumar mohan or kamini sukram which is your real name so who is this guy he was like a friend if it was your ex-boyfriend or something or what hey is your who's an ex-boyfriend tell us where they are every day we just found a guy in his bank statement which had um her real name on it and the name of somebody else um indra i think indra mohan i suspected that might have been mark singh's other real identity but uh she said it was some ex-boyfriend in uh mark who's indra mohan okay the couple both claim that indra mohan is the woman's partner officers have found an identity card which could clear up the confusion you know mr mohan no you don't know mr mohan that's strange that's a picture of mr mohan that was a guyana identity card in the name of indra mohan which had mr singh's photograph on it with his true identity revealed a relieved indra mohan now wants to come clean we were like in prison in here we cannot go anywhere i can't go for a holiday nowhere i can't see my mom who just have just um bypass in new york i can't even go to see her and so i'm happy if i'm going home i'm happy i'm just sad enough i fed up i i was expecting this to come more far more earlier but at this time the confessions continue now it's the turn of his partner what started on this was as soon as i landed here then i got pregnant when he was three years after 14 years in hiding this couple has finally been caught out see in the front but it's a familiar story for the investigations team identity hijacking is not uncommon it's rife really particularly for people that are desperate to stay in the uk they'll do anything identity fraud of one sort or the other costs the taxpayer 1.2 billion pounds every year while fingerprints and photographs are taken at croydon police station officer leonette has made another discovery about the man's real identity when we were at the address today we found an identity in the name of indra mohan we made checks with the home office and it appears that this person arrived in the uk in 1990 there's allegations of domestic violence and he was either deported or removed in 1991 he wouldn't therefore be allowed to come back in that identity hence that's why he's acquired another identity of marxing he left britain as indra mohan and came back illegally as mark singh he then applied to stay in the uk indefinitely using this name they've lied to everybody they knew this was coming so they'll just have to take the consequences the couple from guyana were remanded in custody they later pleaded guilty to deception and benefit fraud they were each sentenced to eight months in prison [Applause] still held at immigration control is the returning student from india officer lee wants to know why his documents show he studies in two places at once but this student can't even remember the name of the college his certificates are from take a seat you don't know the name of the college where you studied for a whole year not all year six months six months you sure so how long did you study at the second college was my question i think eight months old what subjects did you study well first year it for your eight months at the second college whose name you can't remember what subjects did you study i can't remember you can't tell me where it what the name of the college was or what you studied while you were there you've forgotten so for all my documents you can check that well i'm asking you sir because the only way i can be sure that you've studied here is if you tell me and you can't tell me anything yeah because i told you my memory is not so sharp that's not an excuse i know i know why you can't remember the second one because you never went there when did you enroll at churchill college um october i think october what year 2017. so why then do you have letters from the other college the second college saying you were also enrolled at their college at the same time what time the same time you say you've been studying at churchill college no yes sir no because that will give you the name of the college one of them's wrong i have a problem with the fact that you've got documentation in your bags which tells me that you were studying in two places at once you may disagree with me that's what the documents say this leads me to believe that you've been less than honest with me so far today listen this is true don't tell me to listen i've got the documents you can't remember what's on there because you never went there that's why you don't know the name of the college you've got documents by deception how you got them i don't know all right so stop messing about because this is ridiculous saying you can't remember the name of somewhere you claim to have studied at for eight months it's ludicrous ludicrous you need some time to think i can sit here and wait it's fine tell me all the lecturers names tell me what exam you sat last tell me what the title of the exam was i told you i can't remember right now why not because my mind is not study i told you my mind is all messed up i can't remember i need some time rubbish you've been found out you don't know the answers because you're not studying anything it's quite frustrating because i know that anyone with any credibility as a student would remember the answers to my questions you know where did you study he can't remember a whole year of his life it's quite obvious he's got something to hide quite clearly he's trying to conceal something about his past here it may well be that he has been attending college the current college the problem i have is how can i be sure of that if he's telling me he can't remember his tutors names the modules he sat when he set an exam or what exam he set it's just nonsense officer lee is convinced he's not been studying but without hard evidence there's little to go on she talks it over with her chief immigration officer all i have is that he has absolutely no idea he just can't remember anything about his college he can remember his journey there he can remember a bit about what he does at work but every time you're asking anything academic he's got no idea college is saying he's attending but at the moment he's not satisfying me that he is but i don't know what we can do because clearly we've got i don't think we have enough at the moment no because if he went to appeal what would have was the college saying yes he's attended yes he's got any of these past marks we're the educational provider if someone's a good student or not well we haven't got enough to go on no personally i think we're flogging a dead friend i know it's frustrating as it is i shall um tell him the good news he'll be thrilled as one of the colleges says he's studying there and there is no evidence to say otherwise officer lee has no choice but to allow him into britain right it's your lucky day all right you awake you understand what i'm saying yeah my chief immigration officer and i have spoken about you at length all right now whilst i'm not satisfied that you're studying here at the moment i don't have enough to cancel your visa so you're being allowed to enter today all right however when your visa comes up for renewal in november you'd better hope that you can remember by then what you've been studying otherwise you're going to have a problem all right so i think it was a bit stressed but end of the day it was quite good to a happy ending would you say i'll try and remember next time unless i have an admission from him or from the college or from his employer that he has done something in breach of his visa conditions i have no choice but to grant him entry work only sleep eat maybe some studying yeah of course all right bye [Music] it's 11 p.m in south wales and the enforcement team is looking for illegal workers specific intelligence was that illegal workers would be there after 10 o'clock so that's why we're there at this time of night this team raids 150 takeaways every year in the search for immigration offenders tonight they're visiting a kebab shop good evening fellas immigration we've got a warrant to come in okay thank you yeah i say what you're doing search hello premises for employees even if it means waking them up hello mate immigration service got a warning to enter the premises do you want to get yourself up please downstairs officer collins begins to question a man he found in the kitchen nationality where are you from i am from turkey turkey where you living upstairs is he sleeping upstairs living upstairs in the flat are you in here on a work permit uh you got in your passport what have you got okay wait there yeah one second he's got a passport upstairs there as well as officers search for the turkish man's passport the man who's just woken up faces a grilling from immigration she replied to stay here up here albanian have you claimed asylum yeah right you've claimed asylum on this chap yeah it's claimed asylum application outstanding at the moment technically it was out with time but there's a bit of grace period and it's accepted that it was within time even though he was out with time all right final one so technically this albanian man came to britain in 2001 aged 15. where's your passport he was given permission to stay until he became an adult he's since applied for asylum and is waiting for a decision upstairs officers have found the passport they've been looking for basically he's presented us with a turkish passport he's got a visit visa in there uh visit student but the visa can clearly states no work or we cost the public funds uh second name at bus alpha kilo bravo alpha sierra eyes got a student visa here this man came into the country as a student for a one-month english course it finished three weeks ago his visa says he's not allowed to work here because he was studying on a short-term basis if he has been working then he'll be deemed to be working in breach of his energy conditions and he will stand to be arrested [Music] so this course in st giles down in eastbourne that you took a month over that's what you were supposed to come in for you were supposed to leave after that yeah yeah so why didn't you leave after it okay i think you've been working here he's trying to improve his english that's what he's been doing i know he has that's what he's been doing this student won't admit he's been working but officers spot the kebab shop has cctv maybe the truth will be on there that's one yeah he's saying he's not working here obviously the evidence there is is that he is red t-shirts gentlemen working with red t-shirt that's you serving it serving a customer so and if we play this tape back over a longer period it's going to be on there isn't it a lot more so you might as well come clean and just tell us because we're going to play that we've got documentary evidence there that he's actually working so he's working in breach of his conditions of his stay i am now going to arrest him for working in breach okay it's a dead giveaway i mean it's a double-edged weapon it protects them gives them a bit of security but then it works against them and shows them working with the video evidence showing he works there the student from turkey is arrested and transferred to an immigration removal center before being deported straight to the front coming up the man behind the mask try to relax you're getting tense but will he make it into britain [Music] at terminal 3 an australian man has been stopped at passport control chief dyson hands the case over to immigration officer brendan bruce australian mail four months holiday single ticket three and a half thousand australian dollars which is what fifteen hundred quid fifteen hundred two thousand yeah um gonna stay with some friends in the uk he also applied for these mobility scheme you know the working holidaymaker thing um and was refused he's basically been to the consulate and said i want to live and work in the uk for at least a limited period we've said no doesn't have a job to go back to doesn't have that much money has his bags been done don't believe that i can't i'll start with that i'll go straight down and do that now the passenger has been stopped because the immigration team believes he doesn't have enough money for a four-month holiday that and just three weeks ago he was refused a uk work permit i'm going to take you downstairs now for a baggage inspection go straight down he'll have to convince officer bruce that he's not here to work a bag search may help the officer find any evidence of the man's intentions for his trip to britain did you pack in a hurry yes the yes seems nervous try to relax try to relax you're getting tense officer bruce finds a mask which may or may not be work-related you're looking nervous this man is carrying some strange clothes but are they a concern for immigration this document might be i found a letter of sorts or a contract it says a contract between master and slave this contract is between the master and the slave this contract is made with the full legal consent of both parties the slave must learn to desire what the master wants signed by the passenger as the slave dated the 5th of june 2008 that is not an employment contract as i would see it so it's just i think a bit of interesting reading officer bruce is content the passenger's contract is not a sign of employment but he still has concerns about the passengers funds okay i'm going to go and interview the gentleman now mr golf the immigration interview gives officer bruce a chance to find out about the passenger's trip and the items in his bag okay the equipment you have in your bag if you're coming here for a short holiday why do you have all of that with you your uh your clothing your fetish clothing fetish clothing i intend to hopefully use it okay you have a contract with your master where is your master currently i have no idea will you receive any form of cash payment for using your equipment absolutely okay what do you have to return to in australia okay i have a couple of pets obviously all my friends and family are in australia my life is in australia i don't believe he can afford to be here he's got 1500 pounds to last including paying for at least partial rent food whatever transport he intends to do whatever things he intends to do well is he just doesn't have the funds officer bruce will now consult his chief immigration officer sarah dyson let's think about what he really needs to survive in the uk in london you know even living on beans and jacket potatoes for four months it doesn't really hang together and we know that he wanted to work here because we've got the evidence you know he applied for that visa and got only refused three weeks ago didn't he so i'm recommending refuse leave to enter and return him to his country i just want to come outside i just need to explain something to you sure okay um the situation is this due to your current circumstances i'm not satisfied you are going to be refused entry to the uk today so would you prefer to go tonight or take a flight might as well be tonight his lack of funds makes the immigration team suspicious he's here to work he's refused entry and sent back to australia on the next available flight [Music] you

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Length: 44min 7sec (2647 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 01 2021