UK Border Force - Season 2, Episode 4: Stolen Identity

Brittney's borders are protected by 25,000 men and women at home and abroad their job is to seek out in law breakers and imposters who don't have a right to be they are the UK for us tonight the couple who didn't exist an illegal worker is caught on camera gentlemen working Vicky and a student is given a lecture but Heathrow you've got documents by deception how you got them I don't know all right so stop messing about because it's a 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 enroute to a Chinese takeaway suspected of employing illegal workers am I gonna have any runners out the back dad hopefully when we get in there be some people who can actually remove out of it as two of the team enter from the front officer Whitmarsh night covers the rim trying to run their time to run the train to run two men are stopped trying to escape out of the back it turned all up please from it 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 oh don't speak any English they say as officer Whitmarsh night questions one of the runners using an interpreter on the phone officer Collins goes upstairs is anyone else over here adult mum and dad yeah downstairs okay idea we've got to appear to children while two young children have been found upstairs officer Whitmarsh knife 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 Sully riska for fun and he's only been here a couple of days register with the dentist what you do when you're on all of it he admits entering Britain illegally he is now arrested as officers search for documents relating to the man they've 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 the news that he's in the system we have checked and here's my failed asylum seeker he's absconded working yeah don't stairs no busy by then all his appeal rights are exhausted and he has since disappeared off-screen so we're looking to take him into the police station so he can get the travel document applications as well officer Nick job interviews the father of the child found is it the two children upstairs your children know one child one child is a boy or the Jennifer 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 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 as part of the European Union 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 whose two agenda and they do wear is pay slips here and amnesia at Heathrow forgotten College you don't attend the Criminal Investigations team at Croydon deal with serious immigration officer tina lee annette 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 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 is certainly partners today Tina's team prepared 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 the real person at 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 Nadeau 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 Naidu according to home office records his real name is Mark Singh but what we're looking for is evidence of who these people really are how long they've lived in the UK and what documents they've got they've been here a long time in my cell phone they've established a life so we need to find out exactly what they've been doing and how hi sir UK Border Agency you're coming to speak to us alright yeah please thank you what's your first name mr. Singh mark come to me do you want to have a seat please the man has identified himself as the target mark Singh what's your name madam please and the woman says she is Savitri Naidu but the team believes this name belongs to someone else you have possibly assumed your density of somebody else and that Victorino is your real identity okay therefore arresting you on suspicion of illegal entry Otoniel peculiar voltage by deception and obtaining property by deception understand way under arrest okay well just explained that we think you've taken her identity of somebody else right well the woman is sticking to her story officers must now search for evidence to prove her real identity she's obviously sent home it's got this address with a different name on it's got the name kilo 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 burcham finds some payslips that may relate to her partner as a payslip here addressed to mr. RV Naidu it's okay he's been working at the hospital using the identity you know of the sort of document you'd expect to find lying around the house of somebody who's is using an identity I think mr. Singh who's Rajendra and they do he lives it down the landowner dear so why do why do you have all these documents in your house there and I used to come here sorry you used to be here and so it used to be here so why was donkey Miss Austen here why was pi scripts here I have to say the truth dear after telling the truth let's go to Pune station I will tell it what happened yeah yeah well to be honest somehow we using that name on you yes I'm using you are okay yeah we found some documents the dress to Rajendra Naidu and to dimension of the brief in that so he thought his identity that so this gentleman has been using so I just asked him about documents and he admitted that he is using them so we think you know he's gonna be arrested for those offenses 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 is always very hard to find out who the real person is passport says Kemeny Sukhram born 23rd of february 1964 Guyanese though she's been in since 1995 when she was given six months countries a visitor stay extended since then so she obviously assumed the ID we've arrested or under sometime after 1995 kamini Sukhram 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 is a relief so let a judge know the truth as I said I wanted 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 about what he studied didn't know very much about his subject area which is IT what's a URL what does HTTP stand for he didn't have a clue now clearly he's been studying IT for almost three years he appears to know little about his course and officer Li 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 study the Diploma in IT yeah but you don't know what URL is or HTTP all right you never mentioned this college to me before no you didn't they've forgotten where you've got your certificates from honey you didn't tell me about this College sir I specifically asked you and you didn't mention it officer Li 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 and 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'd you get a certificate from a college you don't attend wish my 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 if you don't to answer my questions we can send you back to India without answering my questions okay if you don't answer we can refuse you entry failure to cooperate with an immigration officer yeah he had some documents with him some certificates from the college he's not mentioned at all to me went 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 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 leaf owns the college where the passenger says he's currently studying 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 certificate 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 in skills register which colleges have to be on if students are to be given their visas or extensions of stay college that you got this letter from is no longer on it if indeed it ever was so the phone numbers 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 to colleges virtually the whole time to do the same course can't have been in two places it was 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 have to have concrete evidence that we can use to overturn his visa [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 do you have any documents to say that you can work here just so you have a copy what's her immigration stays clean to silent what's the outcome of that so she's got a sound of mercy she's been granted a sanity refugee status when was he granted she was granted in 1996 she made a claim so she claimed in 1996 but when was it granted she hasn't been granted yet then I said so you told me that she was allowed to work so you've seen documentation see she doesn't work but you can't have she's just said she hasn't been granted although 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 thank you you'll need to find the documents to prove this or could face a 10,000 pound file occasionally very rarely we document to confirm that he's the one who's been responsible for hiring us all three have you seen a passport for any of them well he's gonna fear a few documents down there so with a bit of luck there'll be something in another stuff well helpless he can't find the documents he needs a next door all that turns up is a driving licence [Music] don stairs officer Collins checks the woman's details on the home of his 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 no 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 there's no issues at all times okay so what I'm going to do is set up on a coin and I'm gonna arrest her pulling in custody the child upstairs and everything else okay it's imperative she does that okay that way Cygnus is getting some money because obviously she can't work here again at this point because obviously 1996 he's been there 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 fine twenty thousand pounds for employing three illegal workers the two kitchen workers who tried to escape are taken to a local police station [Music] 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 and its rise and shine in Wales 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 received from 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 Sukhram now the team want evidence to prove the identity of her partner he was living here using a stolen name Rajendra Naidu whilst he was registered with the Home Office as Marx Singh and just now they found a bank statement with yet another name indra Mohan who is he to you then because through the accounts in that name and your name is a joint account Indra Kumar Mohan or Kamini Sukhram which is your real name so who is this guy was your next boyfriend or something or what hey is your next boyfriend we just found a Guyanese bank statement which had her real name on it and the name of somebody else in Des Moines I suspected that might have been mark Singh's identity but it was some ex-boyfriend in mark whose Indra Mohan the couple both claimed that Indra Mohan is the woman's partner officers have found an identity card which could clear up the confusion do you know mr. Mohan no you don't know mr. Mohan strange that's a picture of mr. Mohan that was a guy on a identity card in the name of Indra Mohan which had mr. Singh's photo with his true identity revealed a relieved Indra Mohan now wants to come clean we were like in prison in here we can't add law anywhere I can go for a holiday no vir I can't see my mom hold yourself up just by passing in New Yorker I can't even go to see her and some happy if I'm going to mom happy I'm just sad enough hi Phillip I was expecting this I can move it far more earlier but at this time the confessions continue now it's the turn of his partner soon as the London then I got pregnant after 14 years in hiding this couple has finally been caught up in front of Kosovo 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 Lee Annette 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 Ingram 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 Marx 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 still held at immigration control is the returning student from India officer Li 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 of from you don't know the name of the college where you studied for a whole year six months sure so how long did you study at the second college was my question what subjects did you study well first year it for your 8 months at the second college whose name you can't remember what subjects did you study 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 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 that's not an excuse I know I why you can't remember the second one because you never went there when did you enroll at Churchill College October what year so why then do you have letters from the other college a second college saying you were also enrolled at their college at the same time the same time you say you've been studying at Churchill College 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 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 some way you claim to have studied at for eight months it's a ludicrous ludicrous thing I can sit here and wait it's fine tell me all the lecturers names tell me what exam you've sat last the title of the exam was I told you I can't remember right now why not because my mind is not so dead 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 12 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 sat an exam or what exam he said 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 you just can't remember anything about his college he can remember his journey there you can remember a bit about what he doesn't work but every time you asking anything after damn it he's got no idea college is saying he's attending but at the moment he's not satisfying me that years 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 cuz if you went to appeal would have was the college saying yes he's attended yes he's got a these past marks where the education of Vidor weird well we know we know 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 I know frustrating as it is I sure um tell him the good news he'll be thrilled [Laughter] as one of the colleges says he's studying there and there is no evidence to say otherwise officer Li has no choice but to allow him into Britain right it's your lucky day all right you wake 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 gonna have a problem all right laughing it was a bit stress but end of the day it was quite good teeth happy ending but 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 no work only sleep eat maybe some studying yeah of course all right [Music] it's 11 p.m. in South Wales and the enforcement team is looking for illegal workers specific intelligence was that the illegal workers would be there after 10 o'clock so that's why we're there this time of night this team raids a hundred and fifty takeaways every year in the search for immigration offenders tonight they're visiting a kebab shop immigration got warrant to come in officers searched the premises for employees even if it means waking them up hello mate Immigration Service got a warrant to enter the premises if you want to guess offer please downstairs officer Collins begins to question a man he found in the kitchen are you in here on a work permit oh you got in your passport why have you gone stays 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 and up here y'all being in have you claimed asylum right you've claimed asylum on this chap yeah he's claimed asylum application outstanding at the moment technically he was out the time well there's a bit of grace period and it's accepted that it was within time even though he's out what I'm technically this Albanian man came to Britain in 2001 aged 15 he was given permission to stay until he became an adult he sits applied for asylum and is waiting for a decision upstairs officers have found the passport they've been looking for well basically he's presented us for the weather Turkish Passport he's got a visit visa in visit students but the reason clearly states no worker we cost of public funds second name at bus alpha kilo Bravo alpha Sierra 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 so this course incent Giles down in Eastbourne that you took a month over that's what you were supposed to come in for he was supposed to leave after that yeah so why didn't you live up to it okay I think we've been working here it's trying to improve his English that's what he's been doing and oh yes if it has written defend this student won't admit he's been working but officers spot the kebab shop has CCTV maybe the truth will be on their last one yeah serving a customer saying he's not working here obviously the evidence there is is that he is mag t-shirt gentleman working Vicki she have been observing a customer and if we play this tape back over a longer period it's gonna be on there isn't it a lot more so you guys will come clean you just tell us documented evidence said that he's actually working so he's working in breach of his conditions of his stare I am now going to arrest him for working in breach okay protects them security but then he works against them it 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 coming up the man behind the mask let it hang 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 Brendon Bruce Australian male four months holiday single ticket through nine thousand Australian dollars if she's walk 15 fifteen hundred two thousand gonna stay with some friends in the UK he also applied for these mobility scheme he was a working holiday Mecca I think and was refused he's basically being to the consulate 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 okay it says back to me now I can't wanna start with that right because try 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 gonna take you downstairs now for a baggage inspection go straight down to you he'll have to convince officer Bruce that he's not here to work egg 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 the passenger seems nervous try to relax try to relax during 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 lesser 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 passengers 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. Gough the immigration interview gives officer Bruce a chance to find out about the passengers trip and the items in his bag thank you 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 your clothing you know it is failing fetish clothing using all station now can you have a contract with your master where is your master currently will you receive any form of cash payment for using your equipment absolutely thank you what do you have to return to in Australia pets obviously all my friends and family are as proud of you my life is in straight I don't believe he can afford to be here he's got 1,500 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 here it just doesn't have the facts 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 it so I'm recommending refused me to enter and return him to his counselor I just need to explain something to you situation is this Judea 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 prior tonight miles will 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 [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: UK Border Force

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Keywords: Heathrow, Airport, Air Traffic Controller, Security Guard, Air Control, UK Border Force, Investigation, Maximum Security, England, Security, Border, TV, UK, Border Security Force, Force, London, Reality, Cineflix, Border Security, Police, Production, Reality TV, United Kingdom

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Length: 44min 3sec (2643 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 23 2016