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Bogus websites, staged protests and pretend atheists: Inside the fake asylum industry

www.bbc.com·Billy Kenber·about 2 months ago
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18 hours ago Billy Kenber, Politics investigations correspondent, Phil Kemp, Politics reporter and Sajid Iqbal, News reporter BBC Lawyer Zahid Hasan Akhand was filmed by an undercover reporter From fake news websites to staged political protests and bogus medical conditions, asylum seekers and the advisers helping them are using an array of fabricated evidence to bolster their fake claims. Other techniques include paying to write articles in atheist magazines and hiring someone to pretend to be a same-sex partner. At an office off the busy Mile End Road, in east London, on a Tuesday evening in early April, our undercover reporter was receiving an instruction course in how to apply for asylum. Posing as a Bangladeshi student who had just dropped out of his university course, he had said he was looking at asylum as a way to stay in the country. Now Zahid Hasan Akhand, who introduced himself as a barrister, was talking him through the different options and how to dupe the Home Office.…

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