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Muslim Home Office official was ringleader of $8,400,000 conspiracy that allowed 437 illegal migrants into UK

Apr 5, 2018 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

A Home Office official said: “The bottom line is that we may never know the true number of people this gang helped stay in the country. There could be literally hundreds more on their books that we simply haven’t found. The deception that has been allowed to go on for years is highly embarrassing to the Home Office. Some of those given new identities could even be potential terrorists. Many of them have simply melted away meaning we will never trace them.”

But to have questioned Shamsu Iqbal about his activities — well! Everyone knows that would have been “Islamophobic.” And after all, the Home Office was too busy with more important matters, such as keeping foes of jihad terror out of the country.

“Home Office official was the ringleader of £6million conspiracy which allowed 437 illegal immigrants into Britain,” by Christian Gysin, Daily Mail, April 4, 2018 (thanks to Maurice):

A Home Office official was at the centre of a £6million conspiracy which allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants into the country.

Shamsu Iqbal, 61, was the lynchpin of a gang which exploited his ‘trusted’ position to falsify records for at least 437 people.

Yesterday all four men involved in the scam were found guilty following a trial and will now be sentenced at a hearing next week.

They face a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail.

The potential loss to the taxpayer was assessed by Home Office statisticians as £56million, based on the amount the 437 illegal immigrants could have falsely claimed in benefits over the six years of the fraud.

However, exactly how many immigrants were given ‘ghost’ identities may never be known.

The conspiracy netted the gang themselves more than £6.18million, with much of the money spirited back to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Dubai, where the criminals have strong links.

When ringleader Iqbal was arrested investigators found bank accounts containing more than £1million in cash.

His job at the Home Office would have earned him around £23,000 a year.

Iqbal and his three co-conspirators would split the £14,000 fee they charged to the illegal immigrants they helped.

Prosecutors explained how Iqbal would access Home Office records of migrants who had been granted the right to stay in Britain and swap them for details of imposters.

Investigators with the Home Office’s Anti-Corruption Unit spent three years identifying at least 437 cases of documents being faked.

The ‘ghost’ imposter would get a new identity of a real migrant who had been given either ‘leave to remain’ or ‘no time limit’ status to stay in Britain.

A senior Home Office source told the Mail: ‘The bottom line is that we may never know the true number of people this gang helped stay in the country.

‘There could be literally hundreds more on their books that we simply haven’t found.

‘The deception that has been allowed to go on for years is highly embarrassing to the Home Office.

‘Some of those given new identities could even be potential terrorists. Many of them have simply melted away meaning we will never trace them.’…

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  1. kuriakose says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 10:09 am

    Look at that face. You can feel the hate oozing out. Muhammedism is nothing but an ideology of hate.

  2. mummymovie says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 11:08 am

    To state the obvious: Benefits are a big part of this moslem invasion. You hear about (mostly moslem immigrant-related) food stamp fraud in the US. And we know that migrants, “refugees”, “asylees”, and the rest of these parasites of the hijra flock to locales globally and particular states within the US that offer the most benefits and welfare goodies.

    With that in mind, it makes you wonder how much more of his type of activity is going on around us.

    The hijra and global jihad is much more sophisticated than we had previously imagined. They have been busy little bees.

    It sure managed to sneak up and bite us in the patoot, didn’t it?

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 5, 2018 at 7:01 pm

      Muslims will do whatever they can get away with in the West.

      • Anne Smith says

        Apr 6, 2018 at 5:46 am

        Baksheesh and corruption are a way of life for them. The tarditional old English virtues of thrift, hard work and decency are an alien concept.

  3. Tjhawk says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 11:33 am

    It seems that muslims are absolute masters at making huge amounts of money on schemes that harm the well meaning hosts and benefit the parasites. It’s a win/win for them until the host dies. Then it’s death and desolation for everybody.

    • mummymovie says

      Apr 5, 2018 at 12:12 pm

      Totally.

  4. Yohanan says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 11:53 am

    The same Home Office that banned the tourist entries of speakers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller in 2003 –
    >”… For example, the Home Secretary has the power to ban individuals from entering the country to stir up hatred and provoke violence. This can be effective, such as when we prevented Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer – the co-founders of the anti-Muslim hate campaign “Stop The Islamization of America” – from speaking at an EDL rally in Woolwich in June.” – Speech given by Security Minister James Brokenshire on 5 September 2013 to the Special Interest Group on far right activity
    < https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/security-ministers-speech-for-the-far-right-special-interest-group-conference

    • mortimer says

      Apr 5, 2018 at 12:05 pm

      What they call ‘far right’ is anything but. It is the post-modernist Leftards who have moved away from the centre. The Leftards have given up the pretense of moderation, but they accuse their opposition of being ‘EXTREME’, even though the opposition has not changed its political philosophy.

      Moderate centrism is demonized and vilified because it is what most people want and the Left must convince them that they are ‘bad’.

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 12:02 pm

    THIS IS PROOF that the Home Office was infiltrated with members of the RED-GREEN AXIS OF EVIL.

    The Home Office SELECTIVELY bans people for their ideology … Muslim terror-preachers were welcome, but opponents of Islamic terror and supporters of human rights were banned.

    Anyone who finds fault with Islam is banned from the UK. This shows that the country’s border controls are compromised by RED-GREEN totalitarians who have a political programme of imposing THOUGHT CONTROL.

  6. ElderlyZionist says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 4:34 pm

    Maximum sentence of 14 years. This was high treason. Shamsu Iqbal should hang.

  7. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 5:49 pm

    And which present PM was in charge of the Home Office?

    I hope the Skripal poisoning case (“Weapons of Mass Destruction II” or “Distract the Electorate Now, Our Numbers Are Down!”) takes her and lying Bozo Johnson down. It might buy Britain a few more extra years of liberty.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 6:59 pm

    Muslim Home Office official was ringleader of $8,400,000 conspiracy that allowed 437 illegal migrants into UK
    ………………….

    This does not surprise. I just hope–probably vainly–that Britain will do something aobut it.

    • Anne Smith says

      Apr 6, 2018 at 5:47 am

      Baksheesh and corruption are a way of life for them. The traditional old English virtues of thrift, hard work and decency are an alien concept.

      Nothing will change.

    • //Rob says

      Apr 6, 2018 at 3:56 pm

      Not a chance, GI!

  9. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 6, 2018 at 3:34 am

    I wouldn’t mind betting he’s not the only Muslim in a ‘gatekeeper’ position within an Infidel country who is using his or her position to advance the Cause of Islam.

    Be it in Immigration, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, or.. Social Security or equivalent.

    And I would bet my bottom dollar that a Muslim in a ‘gatekeeper’ position in, say, ‘welfare’, will use their petty bureaucratic power to make life miserable for *non-Muslims* who are in need of, say, a disability pension, whilst making sure that his/ her fellow Muslims can milk the system to the max.

    Perhaps there’s an opportunity here for a truly brave and independent investigative reporter to do a bit of trawling through lists of names of employees in the relevant departments of all western countries – not only at national but at regional/ local level – to see what they might find. Look very carefully at any mohammeds or fatimas or similar names that you find in the public service.. *anywhere* in the public service. Watch out for ‘secretaries’ and ‘personal assistants’. Huma Abedin was pretty damn obvious.. but what if there are others, much less visible, but nevertheless, *there*, exerting influence? ‘Filtering’ information? *Skewing* information to their naive Infidel employers? HOw many ‘moderate Muslims’ are exploiting positions as, for example, secretaries?

    Infiltration and subversion, infiltration and subversion.

  10. Gail says

    Apr 6, 2018 at 4:50 am

    I had a feeling that it was muslims in the home office that kept out Robert and Pam and Martin, Brittney, and Lauren. This needs to be investigated.

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