UK Border Force | Interpol Suspects! | Season 2 Episode 8 - Full Episode

[Music] 25 000 men and women work for the uk border agency at home and abroad their job is to seek out the law breakers and impostors who don't have a right to be here [Music] they are the uk border force tonight visa officers play spot the imposter in lagos nigeria the facial expression in all of them is all the same it's the end of the road for a lithuanian ram raider i don't think it's really an excuse for committing a crime do you and eastern promises are broken in a chinese takeaway i think i don't need to paint the fire [Music] heath rowe is one of the world's busiest airports terminal 2 is its oldest terminal a flight from lagos nigeria has just landed at the desk is officer barley ruprai she's been part of the passport team at heathrow for almost seven years just take your passports and your landing card okay just the one passport yeah all the passengers have passed through except for one this man says he's a security guard in london and has permission to work here but his passport has a fake document officer rupri has noticed the stamp belongs to a woman we have an indefinite leave stamp which is in the document and this has the pages that the stamp is on has simply been taken out of somebody else's genuine passport and and stitched into this document to get this far on a false document he will have completely avoided the british high commission in lagos and hoodwinked airline staff on boarding the plane is this you okay and i just need you to come with me right i'm going to go downstairs to search your bags you did you know why we've stopped you today okay we're not happy with your document is this your document no it is yours now it's time for a bag search with officer ruprai and her colleague officer televanta what what's your real name my name is benson okay who's is this passport okay answer the question please this passport who does it belong to the passport yeah there's somebody that gave it to me i would normally call him uncle london i have a problem at home right we need to search your bags and then okay one second we need to search your bags and then after we will go upstairs and we will talk about what problem you have okay first things where did you get the passport from a good samaritan good samaritan's forged passports nowadays in lagos okay okay this this looks like a crib sheet they say where do you work um i am a security officer in oh kent road these are the answers that you were giving us on the desk because i know is that correct isn't that what you said on the desk you did say that i work on the o kent road is that correct that that is correct isn't it okay what else are you not telling us okay you keep saying you got problems we've told you we'll come to those later okay but for us to be able to help you you have to be honest with us now okay no no yeah no point telling us any um any stories so what is your real name again sorry forgotten my name your real name yeah my name yes benson benson can you just write on the back of this card your date of birth [Music] 17 september 1993 17 september 1993. that makes you by my crude calculations 15. yeah yeah you're 15 years old well about 17 200 years until i will become sister on the 17th of september okay the officers suspect that benson has been trained in nigeria to beat the uk immigration system he's claiming to be 15 and he doesn't appear to be 15. it's possible that he's um claiming to be a minor um because it's more difficult to remove miners from the united kingdom and this is something we will be continuing to look at i'm just going to come place them into the holding room okay benson i need you to get up please are you tired sorry okay well i'm gonna take you into another room where you're gonna be a bit more comfortable you can have something to eat there and have something to drink okay if you just want to come through with me benson just follow me now there's nobody because she's already dealing with your case and you'll be given plenty of opportunity to like you know benson claims to have run away if he's telling the truth he's a vulnerable child in a foreign country but it could all be part of his plan to get into the uk relax yourself have something to eat coming up the man with two birthdays that is decorated on bath which one and caught at calais the man with an international arrest warrant you had a choice either to do this or not to do this you knew what you were doing was illegal [Music] lagos nigeria a city with a worldwide reputation for fraud the streets are awash with outlets for fake documents documents that are then used in attempts to obtain genuine uk visas at the british high commission this is the front line in the battle against fraud in 2008 9 000 fraudulent documents were submitted in applications for uk visas entry clearance officers are trained in sifting out the fake from the genuine people supply of birth certificates wedding certificates and photos as family ties in nigeria to show that they have an incentive to return here like for example these photos here the facial expression in all of them is all the same it's just been totally superimposed there on all three photos but not all fraudsters are so easily detected this man is applying for a uk visitors visa it's his fourth attempt records show that he has two different dates of birth today officer phil morgan will ask him about his two birthdays and about some fake documents from an earlier application on his previous application he submitted forge share certificates so we'll raise that at interview and ascertain whether these are actually his certificates if he admits to them being then he will automatically afford to be refused morning who completed your visa application form it's just me you did yeah your previous passport had your date of birth as the 25th of december 1972. now your present passport that is the correct date of birth which one and this um these 15 and of august in 1975 i am 1976. now with your last application yeah you submitted the share certificates oh that was the mystery this is not my own it is the agent that i gave to twitter i submit to the travel agency during that time but the share certificates are in your name i know he's waiting in my name but it's not my own it's not yours yeah how come can you explain why the share certificates are in your name yeah the certificate that i submitted to the travel agency if you understand what i'm saying it is them that printed all these things but i don't know they came to our shop to collect them money so that's how that come on okay so what do you do for a living i'm a businessman this is training are there any other documents you want me to see yeah i know it's going to be a challenge for me to come here and okay but i just want you to know that it's my well i'll need to take a photocopy of that all right that's the end of the interview if you wouldn't mind waiting outside in the waiting room okay thank you very much thank you thank you i've got his west african examination council school certificate which is sort of the equivalent of o levels or gcses in england and on this certificate it states his date of birth as the 15th of august 1976 which is the date of birth reflected in his new passport he hasn't satisfactorily explained the share certificates we know their counterfeit so he has used deception in the previous application so i am of the opinion that this application will be refused but we could get him arrested by the local nigerian police force hi mr youssef your visa application has been refused your visa application has been refused yes it's been refused okay and the reason for your refusal is that you submitted forged documents with your previous application yes okay right there's a copy for you i can't hear you sorry sorry have you just stand a chance to apply in another time no because of your previous deception you've been banned for 10 years before you can apply for another visa application okay the gentleman over there has your documents and passport a lagos police officer escorts him from the premises you know that forgery is a criminal offense the man escapes with a warning their priority is arresting the large-scale fraudsters running the trade in false documents two and a half thousand miles away in london and benson the passenger from lagos is still adamant he is 15 years old officer ruprei suspects he's been coached and is referring this case to her chief immigration officer what's interesting is is the crib notebook that we found in his bags um we've got questions like you know where do you live in london his response where in london do you live and you know it's listed the address exactly where um an interesting one how do you like the airport um or get to the airport to your house and i take the underground tube and it lists which ones he should be getting to get himself there um but that's quite interesting they've obviously prepared him haven't they tried to prepare him i may ask him in the interview and see exactly what he says just take a seat text me on that side there we have this document that is not yours do you agree with me okay this document contains an indefinite leave stamp whose stamp is this the person i bought this thing from what is the name of that person we normally call him uncle london uncle london london okay why do you have a notebook and why do you have questions in there regarding what what you're doing here in the uk after i bought this thing from the boy person so i said i want to get to london so i yeah where would i go yeah he said okay let me say that she just said i'm working in a construction site how do you know uncle london when i get to negros to see my friend my friend not take me dead say since i have problem i should go and meet him so that i'm just you say you're 15 is that correct yes okay um what do you do at home in nigeria i'm a student student and whether you study what's that where do you study i studied school when did you join this high school that was 19 1990 1990 right so i said 1990 2006 2006. yeah all right so you mentioned 1990 no i said i 1990 if i went to school 1990 by now i'm supposed to be a graduate right okay i want to say 2006 because i'm in jail it's true okay so just so to satisfy my curiosity why did you mention that 1990 days why did you mention that nineteen donations looking at you people let me just tell you simple i'm i'm afraid okay i believe that you're you're not fifteen i'm fifteen to me you look older than fifteen fifteen okay how will i believe that you are 15. i'm 15. how will i believe that take it from me okay when you arrived benton you lied to the immigration officer earlier you lied and said this was your passport so how can i believe you no that was initially just um i'm afraid i don't know what to say okay at the moment you don't have a visa in this document which is genuinely being issued to you so we will be refusing you and returning you to lagos how do you feel about that please sir okay okay benson okay benson lisa benson benson i need you to look at me take a seat sit there and talk to me and tell me what your problem is and then i can help you why can't i send you back to nigeria because this passport hasn't i'm not okay why are you not in safe hands i lost my dad and my mom so after the burial ceremony i'm attorney alone so i saw the money they brought from the bank circulated the old money you took you took money from where i said i lost my dad and my mom okay after the barriers every morning so they're not break they're not saying we should go and bring the money he helps so after keeping the money i went there and i collected the morning what what happened both of them died on the same day i'm robert's thieves came to our house so they said they want to money so then my father is not good morning so the other active not tell them to you should wish those people since they don't have money right so that is how it happened so they shot the two of them after rushing them towards me till they died the family of my father you have family what will happen if you go back to nigeria they want to kill me that is just a simple truth so so what do you want from us today i just want you people to keep me safe our hearts save funds and how do you think we can do that you can just i don't know i don't know you know i'm a stranger yes i don't know i just beg so i can help so are you saying that you wish to claim asylum while you're here in the uk i don't know the meaning of asylum if if you want us to help you you need to keep telling the truth i will always tell you the truth and that is just the truth listen i swear okay but yeah which is fine but you're telling us you're 15 years old and we don't believe you we just okay and we need to establish that we need to find out your real age so if you help us we can help you do you understand that okay if you just want to come through if you want to take your holy bible you can we've interviewed him and he is wanting us to help him because he has a problem back in nigeria um i've put it to him does he wish to claim asylum he said he's not fully aware of it however he can't go back to nigeria because he said his family members will kill him okay then so from here really we need to we need to think about getting social services involved and processing his case for asylum they don't believe he's a child of 15 they think he's in his early 30s but without proof either way they follow the rules and hand him over to social services for an age test whilst waiting for this test he was placed in a house in southeast london he has since vanished and his current whereabouts is unknown calais northern france in 2008 the uk border agency searched over a million lorries and stopped 28 000 attempts to cross the channel illegally this morning it's business as usual yeah one two three five possibly where are you from you're right can you run afghan five of you okay the team has found five stowaways one from iran and four from afghanistan of all the nationalities caught attempting to enter the uk illegally afghans are the most frequently encountered so this actually looks like where they've got in they've tried to put it back together with a couple of pieces of uh looks like shoelaces yeah that's where they pointed out to me where they've got in in calais about three hours ago they said but searching for stowaways in the back of trucks isn't the only way to stop people from entering the uk officer john kendall is checking passengers at passport control boarding ferries by coach and car his team have stopped a man from lithuania believing him to be the subject of a european arrest warrant it turns out that he's of interest to the austrian police he's on a european arrest warrant um and it appears that he was is suspected of being involved in a ram raid on a jewelers in austria um apparently lived in ireland so i think we're gonna have to look into that further possibly in uh possibly looking to refuse to admission to the uk okay you just come with me if you want the lithuanian man is wanted in austria to face charges for ram raiding a jewelers he's lived in ireland for two years but claims he can't speak any english it's saturday afternoon and there are no interpreters at calais but officer kendall manages to get one over the phone what was the purpose of your trip to um austria [Music] um so you thought you were going to find a job in austria mr so you went to austria with the intention of you had a choice as an adult either to do this or not to do this and you chose to do it you knew what you were doing was illegal so you're saying that you were coerced into doing this did they hold your passports while you were in austria no that's because most of them no we can't function so your only reason so far really for um doing this is that you didn't have enough money to leave that's not again i don't really think that your motive is very good if your excuse for doing this was yes i knew full well that what i was doing was illegal um but i needed the money to get home i don't think that's really an excuse for committing a crime before you left lithuania you knew you were going to be doing something illegal but you still chose to do it at that point there were no pressures on you whatsoever you could have stayed in lithuania is that correct yeah obviously obviously the man has admitted taking part in the ram raid but the offense took place in austria not britain as an eu citizen he is normally free to travel anywhere in europe but if officer kendall has grounds to believe that he poses a threat to britain he will not be allowed entry and then he can hand him over to the french police coming up the welsh enforcement team visit a repeat offender at a chinese takeaway come and sit in the front and things go from bad to worse for the lithuanian ram raider i'm sure you remember how many times you've been arrested by the police [Music] in 2008 uk border agency arrested 10 000 illegal immigrants in raids across the country enforcement teams build cases from intelligence they've gathered as well as information from the general public today the swansea team are visiting a chinese takeaway in morriston one of the most populated areas of the city we are going to visit ming's kitchen basically without information in to suggest that the immigration offenders working illegally at the premises the three-story building um terraced there is no visible via to the property so on this occasion we'll all be going through the front door he needs to know strongly so well we've visited there last year and we encountered a number of people working illegally a uh a fine was imposed on the takeaway unfortunately we have been to certain establishments on two or three occasions and they haven't learned their lessons and further fines have been imposed so we'll see what happens now in the next 5-10 minutes [Music] hello there immigration we've got a warrant to enter the premises we've got war adventure okay come and sit in the front oh gosh come around the front sit down hello come out sir immigration okay just follow my colleague out to the front there please don't worry it's no problem we'll just get some identification from you and check okay are you gonna come through for me please how many people here two two you two yeah no more people no more yeah okay anybody upstairs um my baby your [ __ ] are sleeping yes oh do you want to go with this lady yeah sorry will you come with me to look upstairs thank you thank you don't worry no panic don't worry the owner of the restaurant says there's no one else in the building except for her baby asleep upstairs i asked the lady who also were upstairs and she had an identification and she says she's got a chinese passport which i've brought down and a british passport for her baby so we'll just check that now to make sure it's genuine and it's got the correct visa inside and um she'll be fine yep she's got a residence permit with leave to limited leave to remain she's allowed to work in the uk was granted in march last year and she's already registered the baby as a british citizen so there's no issue with the baby she came in as a spouse after the two years she applied for indefinitely and was granted it gets that vignette so yeah not subject to control anymore the owner was married to a british national but is now divorced both she and her baby have permission to live and work in the uk but the team have suspicions about the man found in the kitchen who she claims is her new partner does he have a passport or any form of identification okay okay how long has it been in the uk uh for 13 years did he enter the country illegally has he made any applications to the home office to stay here legally he's claimed asylum already has he okay and he says that his asylum was approved said um at the beginning they approved the letter they refused they don't normally approve and then disapprove so he's got paperwork upstairs yeah that's [ __ ] the man's story is unusual he says the home office granted him asylum but revoked it at a later date if he's found to be an illegal worker the owner will be fined up to ten thousand pounds back in calais and officer kendall is interviewing the lithuanian ram raider the officer will not invoke the european arrest warrant but will investigate the case have you ever had any prob other problems with the police or law enforcement authorities and have you had any problems since you've been living in ireland [Music] just once maybe two i'm sure you remember how many times you've been arrested by the police so you've had two problems in uh in ireland in two years decent average okay so the austrians um have issued a european arrest warrant for your arrest for what you were doing in austria if um the arrest warrants enforced by the french police you'll be arrested and uh probably returned to austria okay so i will go and speak to my senior officers and we need to decide if you're going to be refused admission to the united kingdom or not and you've understood every single word i've been saying without the interpreter haven't you yeah so why did you insist on me wasting public money on the interpreters with the admission of his part in the ram raid and two other offences whilst living in ireland officer kendall considers he has grounds to prevent the man from entering the uk but first he refers the case to his chief finish the interview with our lithuanian guest he's more or less admitted that uh he has committed the offense that the austrians have accused him of so he does present a serious threat fundamental interest of society i would say i think as he knowingly traveled from lithuania to austria to commit criminal offences the chance of reoffending what i'll do then is i'll contact the duty inspector and refer your findings to her and see how we go from there yep once again the case is referred upwards before a final decision is made right i have a uh a young male lithuanian national who presented himself at the control a couple of hours ago yes i mean we believe here that you know he he presents a serious threat to the fundamental interests of society and by personal conduct so we were looking to refuse in l1 thank you very problem have a good day take care bye now okay yes please we go ahead then and refuse admission and what i've discussed with penny entry to the uk is denied later that day the man was handed over to the french police who enforced his return to the austrian authorities in south wales the swansea enforcement team are in the bedroom of a chinese man found working in a takeaway foreign nationals and asylum seekers are not allowed to work in the uk unless given permission by the home office he claims he was allowed to work while his asylum application was being processed okay the gentleman's shown me a letter which is received from the home office and he's obviously made an application to the home office and he's written to them requesting whether he can take employment while his asylum application is being considered um we can use this document to it's got references on it so we can check with home office then what stage his asylum application is at okay mr zhu let's go back downstairs the letter is from the home office detailing a request for asylum in 1997 but it's unclear whether the application was successful downstairs the owner of the takeaway is also being questioned about the man's immigration status no matter how many hours he works even working for free how long has he been helping out in the kitchen if he's in britain illegally she's breaking the law he was working in the kitchen when we came in no approval he just helped him yeah don't have the baby how much do you pay him for helping out nothing okay so how many hours does he help out normally each day but one hour one hour each day no sometimes because i have i have got a baby have to to be looked after yes he is a response for look after baby okay so sometimes one hour have you seen any documents to say that and that man can it can be in the uk and is allowed to work here uh he he got the number an eye and a nash insurance home office database will reveal whether the man is here legally or not right i'll give you the family name is zhu that's x-ray uniform illegal entrance has he submitted any other applications right so it's just an illegal entry case okay is he reporting at all no absconder right okay then okay lovely thank you thanks angela i know it's been confirmed the man is in britain illegally since 1997 he has been missing and listed as an absconder this form is a notice of potential liability because your partner here is is working here and shouldn't be well we found him in the kitchen he says he's been here six months whether he's a child mind or whether he's working in the kitchen makes a little difference he's not allowed to he's not allowed to work he's got no permission this will go off to our office in manchester and they will write to you then but you you stand to be fine potentially up to ten thousand pounds for him being here sorry sir uh i have to explain to you yeah this this now this is not this is just a notification of potential liability manchester office will write to you now and then anything you want to try and explain you can put to manchester okay just sign in there for me please and i'll give you a copy and i'll keep a copy then okay thanks the man caught working in the kitchen was put on bail and is reporting every week to his local police station whilst uk border agency get the documents they need to remove him from britain the owner is fined five thousand pounds but she is adamant she did not employ an illegal worker i don't know uh what happened right now he just come down to cook some food for himself this is kitchen for business still for our life you know so i don't think so i got the employee hand nothing nothing so i don't i think i don't need to pay the fine coming up the canadian woman with unusual holiday plans what will you do whilst you're in the uk we're gonna go fishing apparently and then we're gonna do heroin cocaine [Music] at terminal 3 officer lisa lee has stopped a canadian woman who has come to the uk for two weeks to visit a british man she met on the internet the reason we've got concerns is that she's told us that the gentleman she's coming to see has paid for her ticket they've never met she's only got ten dollars in cash no real idea what she wants to do in the uk and she is on quite a lot of medication for various medical complaints that she claims to have so i need to get that checked out before i can decide whether or not she's allowed to have any lexi lexi can you come over um i understand from my colleague you're taking certain tablets at the moment okay can i please have them i need to show them to our doctor so you're on tablets for that yeah okay what else are you taking i take uh four ten milligram values today okay do you need anything at the moment any of your tablets at the moment no okay if it's all right with you i'll take the medication to the doctor here yeah so you rattle when you walk then yeah the amount you have to take all right can i just say something sure i just i think it's really wrong that your airport detains people who are oh listen let me tell you something okay we don't treat no you're not listening to me first but okay all right so let me explain to you that's wrong okay let me explain to you why that might be the case and why you might see it like that okay the reason being that any of these people are here is because we have an immigration issue with them it doesn't matter what color they are what gender they are we don't care we're interested in their immigration status and that's it all right let me do this i'll be as quick as i can okay and then i'll come back and speak to you and we'll try and get this done as quickly as we can all right i've just been in to see our port doctor just to get the ladies medication checked out there's no specific medication in in what we have that's given to cancer patients specifically for melanoma and the doctor said that it's a terminal illness but that there's no prognosis in terms of length of life it could be a year it could be five he said you know provided she's okay then she's fit to be detained no problem and we just crack on with it as we would any other any other person the first job is to contact the man she met on the internet he's downstairs waiting to meet her can he explain how she will get by in london for two weeks on just ten dollars how long have you known each other sir that you met online he has paid for her ticket he runs his own business he said i'm pretty well off she's just come in to spend time with me we're gonna go around london we're gonna do lots of partying that's what i like to do so we need to speak to her really now and get her side of the story why have you come to the uk because i got a divorce with my husband in canada it's legal to get married to transgender the whole time i'd been talking to mike but we were just friends as soon as he heard i was divorced he was like he just said come to london he said london is a really great place and he'll be happy and what will you do whilst you're in the uk we're going to go fishing apparently and then we're going to do heroin cocaine no um do the touristy thing try to see the queen and hit her with a car ariel why because that'd be something to say that you did and i'm going to open a brothel oh yeah yeah a small small one how many people are you going to employ i don't know what i was thinking maybe you should come on i don't think i'd earn you much money i'm flattered but you know you up i'll dial you up one of my concerns is your health okay do you have like healthcare travel insurance for whilst you're here like my cancer and stuff like that you don't have to worry about me but you told me it was stage four that's quite serious right stage four yeah but they cut most of it out of my back and it cut out like a really good tattoo too look okay yeah yeah i see all right right there you go i'll come back when i've spoken to my chief okay okay thank you so did you need the gloves no problem no but this is your box right she's my big boss yeah we were talking in the office and she told me that i need to do a prostate exam on it my god well that was the most interesting interview i've ever done that's quite amusing um i'm sure she was just trying to distract me from answering all the asking all the questions because she was quite a character everything she says in terms of her reasons for visiting i mean you know who am i to say that somebody shouldn't come and visit their internet friend you know it's more and more common these days let's go and see what my chief says he's going to love me before making a final decision officer lee must run it past her chief overall i mean if you're satisfied that she meets mcgregor i'm pretty certain she does and i do believe i mean she said i want to go home i believe she has the intention to return so it's on balance you're happy on balance i think we'll land up i'll go and let her know because i told her that i'd let her know as soon as i knew so that she could be prepared okay there's good news and bad news no no just good news you're going to be granted entry we're going to give you a stamp in your passport for a couple of weeks to come and visit mike come on in my dear [Laughter] i hate the uk but she was very nice at last officer lee can let her passenger cross the border to meet her internet friend for the first time at the end of the day we have to be satisfied of certain things one of them is that she's going to have somebody look after all that she can look after herself while she's here money somewhere to live that was all fine that she's going to leave the uk i'm happy it was a good job good decision let's hope she has fun i suppose she will watch out for her [Music] you

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Length: 44min 25sec (2665 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 18 2021