Fifth defendant found guilty of 'cash for citizenship' scam
A fifth man has been found guilty of involvement in a nationwide "cash for citizenship" scam which operated from a training centre in Yorkshire.
A jury at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday found Mehmet Ince guilty of conspiring to defraud the UK Border Agency by acting as a middle man who introduced migrants prepared to pay hundreds of pounds for false citizenship test certificates from City Wide Learning in Sheffield. Ince, who was based in an office in Tottenham, recruited Turkish immigrants from London.
On Monday, three directors of City Wide Learning and its administrator were found guilty of conspiring to provide false pass certificates for the online Life in the UK test in exchange for cash. The jury is continuing its deliberations on another alleged middle man, Halil Dari.