Immigration officers stormed a Tonbridge factory this week in a massive operation to target illegal workers.
Monday’s dawn raid at Southern Salads in Cannon Lane, was one of the biggest of its kind to have been seen in Kent.
More than 40 police and Home Office officials descended on the unsuspecting pre-prepared salads and vegetable producer in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fraud and corruption'
IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED IN FACTORY SWOOP
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DUP to probe ex-mayor vote fraud
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A DUP disciplinary panel is to examine the case of former Coleraine mayor Dessie Stewart who admitted electoral fraud during the 2005 elections.
He admitted four counts of pretending to be someone else in order to cast postal votes, and two of fraudulently stopping free exercise of a proxy vote. The DUP said a party [...]
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Ex-boxing champ freed from prison
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Former boxing champion Naseem Hamed has left prison after serving 16 weeks of a 15-month term for dangerous driving.
The 32-year-old was jailed in May after his sports car was involved in a 90mph crash in Sheffield which left another driver, Anthony Burgin, badly injured.
As he left Moorland Prison, Doncaster, on Friday in a Rolls-Royce, [...]
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Labour donors ‘10,000 times more likely to receive knighthood’
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Labour has sold honours for as little as £50,000 according to a new study which has been sent to Scotland Yard detectives probing the cash for honours scandal.
It also reported donors are 1,657 times more likely to receive an honour than those who have not given money to the party, a staggering 7,000 times [...]
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Murder, rape, assault: the secret crimes of London’s diplomats
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Foreign diplomats can get away with murder. They are also escaping prosecution for rape, child abuse, indecent assault,fraud, bribery and possession of drugs and firearms.
For the first time, figures have been released showing the crimes committed by those who work behind the elegant facades of London’s embassies. They reveal that between 1999 and 2004, [...]
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Whites need not apply
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Trainee Administration Officer
Temporary
Advertised on Tuesday 30th May 2006
Job Description
Please quote reference CHS/3308/224
This training position is only open to unemployed applicants from the following racial origins: African, Asian, Afro-Caribbean and Chinese, aged 25+ and living within Liverpool City boundary.
This training opportunity will provide on-the-job and off-the-job training aiming to bring the trainee to a [...]
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FORMER COUNCILLOR JAILED
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THREE MEN, including a former Tower Hamlets councillor, have been jailed for siphoning off £45,500 from a sports scheme to help vulnerable people.
The Youth Action Scheme (YAS) was set up in 1995 to promote sport, leisure and recreational activities in the borough. Between 1995 and 2003 it received public funding of £945,000 from a [...]
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Secret report brands Muslim police corrupt
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A secret high-level Metropolitan police report has concluded that Muslim officers are more likely to become corrupt than white officers because of their cultural and family backgrounds.
The document, which has been seen by the Guardian, has caused outrage among ethnic minorities within the force, who have labelled it racist and proof that there is a [...]
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MP demands fraudster deportation
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[She should not have been allowed in thge UK in the first place-ed]
An MP is calling for a fraudster who stole more than £100,000 in benefits to be deported.
Sungaradazzo Mudgyiwa, from Zimbabwe, is back in the council house in Whitstable, Kent, where she was living before her conviction in 2004.
Local MP Julian Brazier [...]
Tags: Fraud and corruption · Immigration
Charges ‘may follow honours probe’
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The senior Scotland Yard detective leading the inquiry into the so-called Labour Party cash-for-honours affair has warned that he has not ruled out corruption charges.
In a letter to MPs who are also investigating claims that peerages were “sold” for political donations, Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Yates said that prosecution was “the only credible deterrent for [...]
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Council tax bills to rise by 4.5%
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[Don't forget folks - if you do not pay up you could end up in jail-ed]
Council tax bills in England will rise by an average of 4.5% this year – more than twice the level of inflation, according to government figures.
The increase means the average council tax per home will be £1,056, up from [...]
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Tories may have to reveal their ‘loans’
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DAVID Cameron could be forced to name fat-cats who lent the Tories £24million.
It’s thought they include tycoons living abroad who are banned from donating under anti-sleaze rules.
Cameron has refused to follow Labour’s lead and declare loans as well as donations. But he may have to come clean after it emerged loans would not [...]
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Labour was secretly loaned £14m
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[Why would wealthy men wish to donate money to a so-called working class party? This makes me sick and is so obvious what the real reasons are behind this 'loan'-ed]
Labour was secretly loaned £13,950,000 by wealthy individuals ahead of last year’s election, it has confirmed.
The figure is more than three times the amount previously [...]
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Councillor convicted of cover-up
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A Norwich city councillor could face a possible jail sentence after she was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
Liberal Democrat Samantha Allison, 38, was convicted by a majority verdict at King’s Lynn Crown Court, after asking her teenage babysitter write a false statement on her behalf when she was arrested for drink-driving.
The verdict [...]
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Ex-councillor admits charity fraud charges
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[Instead of transferring 10k to bangladesh I would suggest you transfer yourself to that country instead mr uddin-ed]
A FORMER Tower Hamlets councillor and his younger brother have admitted pilfering £30,000 from a council-backed East End children’s programme.
Nasir Uddin, ex-Labour councillor for the St Dunstan’s and Stepney ward, and his younger brother, Ain Uddin, dramatically changed their [...]
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Jewish Agent in UK Illegally Gave Nuclear Materials to Israel
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Michael Israel Michaels, a Jewish agent within the UK government, helped Israel obtain nuclear materials — and it wasn’t even the first time.
by Melanie M. Carroll
Even confronted by the incontrovertible evidence of these documents, neither the BBC nor Benn dares utter the obvious truth: Michaels was not a “dual loyalist” — he was [...]
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Hit-and-run councillor may appeal over sentence
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Disgraced Bradford councillor Intkhab Alam is considering appealing against his jail sentence for trying to evade capture after a fatal hit-and-run crash.
The minicab driver, who won the Great Horton seat for the Conservatives in 2004, was locked up for a total of two years and four months after he admitted perverting the course of [...]
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New Audio Message by David Irving
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Jailed British historian David Irving has again said he does not believe Hitler presided over a systematic attempt to exterminate Jews in Europe.
During his trial in Austria, Irving said he had changed his mind over claims the Holocaust did not happen.
But, speaking from his cell later, he told BBC News the numbers killed [...]
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Two arrested in Securitas robbery
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A man and a woman have been arrested by police investigating a raid on a Securitas depot in Kent in which armed robbers got away with up to £50m.
A man aged 29 and woman aged 31, arrested in Forest Hill, south London, are being held at Kent police stations.
They are being questioned on [...]
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Family abducted before £25m raid
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[This is very similar to the robbery in Northern Ireland a few years ago (in sheer size, scope and organisation) -not going short are we Gerry?-ed]
More than £25m in cash has been stolen from a depot in Kent after its security manager and his family were kidnapped by armed robbers posing as police.
The [...]
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