Five illegal workers caught in one Tandoori

Eight illegal workers from Bangladesh have been arrested following a series of Home Office immigration enforcement operations in Stonehaven, Scotland, on Thursday 19th September 2013.
Immigration officers visited Tandoori Haven, Zara Brasserie and Nu Spice Indian Carryout, all on Allardyce Street. Individuals were questioned to check if they had the right to be in the UK.

At Tandoori Haven, visited at 17.30, officers arrested five men aged between 20 and 41. Two, aged 22 and 40, had overstayed their visas, a 20-year-old was working in breach of his visa conditions, a 40-year-old was a failed asylum seeker and a 41-year-old had entered the country illegally. The restaurant had to close following the visit.
At Zara, which was visited simultaneously, two men aged 41 and 43 were arrested for overstaying their visas.
Finally, officers visited Nu Spice at 6.45pm where they arrested a 39-year-old man who had overstayed his visa.
The 20-year-old arrested at Tandoori Haven was detained pending his removal from the country. The others have been placed on immigration bail, they have been given the chance to seek illegal employment elsewhere.

Sham marriage foiled

A Ghanaian man was arrested moments before he was due to take part in a suspected sham wedding in Carmarthen.
Officers attended Carmarthen register office just after 12:00 on Wednesday 18th September.
Just before the ceremony was due to begin officers stepped in, allo,allo what’s going on here then, and the 31-year-old man, who had been living at an address in London, was arrested after checks revealed he was in the country illegally.
He had been due to marry a 25-year-old British woman who was interviewed by officers and later released. What’s happened to the charge of aiding and abetting? The ‘groom’ has been detained pending his removal from the UK.
Two other Ghanaian men, aged 27 and 28, who were guests at the wedding were arrested on suspicion of overstaying their visas. Both men have been released on immigration bail never to be seen again I shouldn’t wonder.

Nineteen illegal workers caught…..

….is there no light at the end of the tunnel, just imagine how many could be caught if more immigration officers were employed.

Six illegal workers have been arrested following operations by officers at two restaurants in Wokingham.
Officers carried out simultaneous visits to Baranda and Boishakhi, both on Peach Street on Thursday 12th September. They arrested two Bangladeshi men at Baranda. One, aged 36, had entered the country illegally while the other, aged 46, had overstayed his visa.
At Boishakhi, officers arrested four men. A 23-year-old Nepalese man and Bangladeshi men, aged 33 and 36, had overstayed their visas, while a 32-year-old Bangladeshi man was working in breach of his visa conditions.
All six men were transferred to immigration detention pending removal from the country at the earliest opportunity.

Two illegal workers have been arrested following operations by immigration officers at restaurants in Pembroke and Haverfordwest.
Officers carried out a visit to Golden Park Chinese takeaway on The Green, Pembroke, on Friday 13th September. A 29-year-old Chinese man was arrested on suspicion of entering the country illegally. He has been released on immigration bail giving him the opportunity to ‘scapa flow’ (go) and find illegal employment somewhere else, well there does seem to be a lot of vacancies for illegal workers these days.

Later on Friday at the Cinnamon Spice Indian restaurant and takeaway, on St Peter’s Road, Johnston, Haverfordwest they arrested a 36-year-old Bangladeshi man who was in the country illegally and living in accommodation above the premises.

Two men have been arrested after Immigration officers visited a Chinese takeaway in Newcastle, Co Down, to check the immigration status of the staff.
The intelligence-led operation was carried out on 12th September at the Wok Box on Main Street. The checks revealed that a 53-year-old Chinese man and a Filipino man, 24, had overstayed their visas. They have been detained pending their removal from the UK.

In Epsom and Esher officers visited Blue Mint Indian restaurant and takeaway on Waterloo Road, Epsom, and La Orient on High Street, Esher, on Friday 13th September. Individuals were questioned to check if they had the right to be in the UK.

At Blue Mint, which was visited at 12:00, three men were arrested. A Bangladeshi man, aged 33, and 29-year-old Indian man were both found to have overstayed their visas while a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man had entered the country illegally.
Officers then moved on to La Orient at about 14:15 where they arrested three Chinese nationals. A man, aged 22, and 23-year-old woman had both overstayed their visas while a 32-year-old woman had entered the country illegally. A further man, aged 45, who had entered the country illegally was found to be working in breach of his immigration bail conditions. He was told to leave the premises, not even a slap on the wrist.
All those arrested were transferred to immigration detention pending removal from the country apart from the Indian national who was placed on immigration bail while his case is progressed. He will probably be another illegal breaching his bail conditions once he finds another job.

Three Bangladeshi men arrested after a restaurant in Hythe was raided by Home Office immigration officials.
Following a tip-off, the officers visited the Raj Bari Indian restaurant, in Seabrook Road, 13th September, and quizzed staff to ensure they had the correct visas to work in the UK. They arrested three Bangladeshi men. One, aged 29, was working in breach of his visa conditions; a 30-year-old had overstayed his visa while the other, aged 35, had entered the country illegally.

Phew that was shed loads of illegal workers caught, now for something different.

A Stanmore man, convicted of running an immigration scam with his wife, has been ordered to repay proceeds of crime totalling nearly £800,000.
Indian national Vijay Sorthia, aged 36, is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence having been found guilty of fraud offences in April 2012.
Sorthia, who was an accredited immigration advisor, used the firm Migration Gurus based on High Street, Wealdstone, as a front to help people to stay in the UK illegally.
Officers from the Home Office’s West London criminal and financial investigation team found £333,000 in cash hidden at Sorthia’s home address in Langland Crescent, Stanmore, after arresting him there in May 2010.
Most of it was hidden in a holdall at the back of a cupboard, but other bundles of notes were also discovered with client names and numbers on. The cash was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA).
Vijay’s wife Bhawna Sorthia, aged 32, who claimed to be employed as a cleaner by Migration Gurus, was arrested 1 month later and sentenced to 15 months alongside her husband at Isleworth Crown Court in May 2012.
The confiscation procedure was led by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). On Monday 9th September Isleworth Crown Court granted a Confiscation Order for £799,000. The £333,000 cash seized from Sorthia’s home will go towards that, but if the outstanding amount is not paid within the next 6 months Vijay Sorthia will serve an additional 3½ years in prison on top of his current 10 year prison term. During the initial investigation it was found that an additional £467,000 had been sent to India. Any further monies the Sorthias come into can be taken from them until the criminal benefit figure of between £800,000 to £900,000 is reached.

Coral bookies do it again

Remember me telling you about Coral, the bookies, ripping some geezer off in Canterbury well here’s another incident.

Well, Oshane Grant placed a £100 accumulator bet on a series of World Cup qualifiers last week. The 42-year-old from Easton in Bristol wanted to bet on France, Serbia and Argentina all scoring at least three goals in their qualifiers.
The staff at his local bookmakers Coral quoted him odds that would make a win worth £9,250. But they had made a mistake.
Grant was told the winning sum when he placed his bet and had the odds written on his betting slip. He then watched Serbia score three goals, France score four and Argentina score five. He went out to celebrate, made plans for his winnings and he even gave £200 to friends.
However, when he went to pick up his dosh, he received only £1,216.67. Apparently the clerk had made a mistake in the first place and had told him what he would have won if all three teams scored four goals.

A Coral spokesman said that the bet was written on the slip as three or more goals, which is the “critical information on the betting slip”. The member of staff then accidentally wrote the odds which would have applied if he had bet on the teams scoring four or more goals. But every bet has specific odds, which are publicised, audible and transparent and “not made up by the shop”. He said: “If the price written on the betting slip is demonstrably and provably wrong, the bookmaker will pay out at the correct odds rather than those written on the slip.”

He added that the company had a great deal of sympathy for the customer,I bet, and that it had offered to pay out at the best possible price he could have got anywhere in the market for the bet he asked for.

After all said and done the geezer got ripped off. So don’t go in Coral unless you are prepared not to get what you are told your winnings will be.

More illegal workers caught around UK

As we progress further into September shed loads of illegal workers caught

In Wales

Two men have been arrested following an operation by officers at two restaurants in Pembroke. On Wednesday 4th September 2013 officers visited Pembroke Tandoori, on Main Street, Pembroke where a Bangladeshi man, 55, who is suspected of having overstayed his visa, was arrested.
Later at Rajah Tamarind Spice, on Pembroke Street, Pembroke Dock, a 36-year-old Bangladeshi man was also arrested on suspicion of overstaying his visa. Both men have been released on immigration bail giving them a chance to vanish.

In southern England

Immigration officers visited Nisa Local Convenience Store, Al Amin Exotic Foods and Taj Mahal Supermarket on Wednesday 11th September in Brighton. Individuals were questioned to check if they had the right to be in the UK.
Officers entered Nisa, The Highway, at 11.10am and arrested a 26-year-old Indian man who had overstayed his visa.
They then moved on to Al Amin on Lewes Road at 12.55pm, where they arrested a Bangladeshi man, aged 29, who had entered the country illegally.
Finally they visited Taj Mahal, Bedford Place, at 2.55pm where they arrested a 23-year-old Pakistani man who was working in breach of his visa conditions.

In the Garden of England

Officers visited Masala Reef on Hove Street, Sheerness, Kent at 5.45pm on Friday 6th September. Individuals were questioned to check if they had the right to be in the UK.
Three men were arrested. Two Bangladeshi nationals, aged 26 and 31, had overstayed their visas while a 21-year-old Indian national was working in breach of his visa conditions.

In the land of the ‘sweaty socks’ (Jocks)

Five illegal workers from Bangladesh have been arrested following a Home Office immigration enforcement operation in Buckie, Scotland
Immigration officers visited Bengal Brasserie, Cluny Square, at 5.30pm on Tuesday 10th September. Individuals were questioned to check if they had the right to be in the UK.
Four men aged between 22 and 49 had overstayed their visas while a 35-year-old had entered the country illegally.
One of the men who had overstayed his visa, aged 31, has been detained pending removal from the country. The others have been placed on immigration bail and will also be removed from the UK if found to have no right to remain and can be found again.

Sham marriage foiled

A Nigerian man, no surprise there then, has appeared in court charged with assisting unlawful immigration after Immigration officers interrupted a suspected sham wedding in Belfast.
Eghosa Courage Agbonghae, 31, and who lives in the Republic of Ireland, was also charged with entering the UK illegally at Laganside Magistrates Court on Monday 9th September 2013
A total of 6 people were arrested during the operation at the Register Office in Belfast City Hall on Saturday 7th September 2013. Nigerian Joy Uwadibie, 28, has been charged with seeking to obtain leave by deception and will appear in Laganside Magistrates Court on 3rd October 2013.
Two Portuguese men Armindo Claudio Camilo, aged 34 and Felix Camilo, 18, were both charged with assisting unlawful immigration and will appear at court on the same date.
Two other guests, a Somali woman and Nigerian man, who were arrested for entering the country illegally, have now been removed from the UK.

Sham marriage gang jailed

Four members of a sham marriage ring have been sentenced at Craigavon Crown Court.
Bangladeshi Mohammad Rahman, 30, and Portuguese Naydyne Sally Aguiar Gomes Botelho, 27, were arrested when officers stopped their sham wedding from taking place in Larne in April 2012.
Rahman, of Abbey Street, Bangor, was jailed for 12 months, with 6 months to be served on licence after [pleading guilty to/being found guilty of] seeking to obtain leave by deception. He was recommended for deportation on completion of his sentence. Yeah right, that’s likely to happen.
The court heard how Botelho had flown into Belfast from London just to take part in the sham marriage. She was sentenced to 10 months in jail, suspended for 2 years, after pleading /being found guilty of assisting unlawful immigration.

Also sentenced at the same court on Friday 6th September 2013 were Bangladeshi Mostafizar Rahman, 24, and Portuguese Catia Sofia Lima, 32. The pair were jailed for staging their own sham marriage, which was uncovered as officers investigated Mohammad Rahman and Botelho. That’s what you get for helping someone else.
Mostafizar Rahman, of Earlswood Road, Belfast, was sentenced to 16 months in jail, with 8 months to be served on licence, for seeking to obtain leave by deception. He was also recommended for deportation at the end of his sentence.
Lima, of Long Acre House, London, was sentenced to 16 months in jail with 8 months to be served on licence.

Morrisons dodgy Carlsberg offer

In our Morrisons a few weeks ago Carlsberg did an offer which was packs of 2×12 cans of lager for £15 which were plastic wrapped together but Mrs ‘W’ spotted this week in Morrisons they had clearly split the 2×12 packs into single packs selling them for £10 a pack of 12 thus making £5 profit. A nice little earner.

Mind you sodium fluoride is also used in teeth care products

Immigration Officers well busy as September starts

Five illegals have been arrested during enforcement operations at businesses in Gwynedd and Flintshire, Wales, checking the immigration status of staff.
On 4th September, Immigration officers visited the East Meets West restaurant on High Street, Abersoch, where they arrested three Bangladeshi men aged 24, 26 and 29, who had overstayed their visas and were working illegally.
On 5th September, officers raided the Caerwys Stores on South Street, Caerwys, where two Indian men, aged 27 and 43, were arrested for immigration offences.
All the men arrested are currently in Home Office detention awaiting their removal from the UK.

Meanwhile in Northern Ireland.

On 3rd September, a 55-year-old Bangladeshi man was arrested at a residential address in south Belfast for overstaying his visa.
On 4th September at the Zaiqa Tandoori takeaway on Grand Parade, Belfast, a 41-year-old Pakistani man who had entered the UK illegally was arrested. Another Pakistani man aged 28 was also arrested when found to be working illegally in breach of his visa conditions. None of those encountered had the right to work in the UK. Those arrested in Belfast are being held in a detention centre in Larne House, Larne while steps are taken to also remove them from the country.

and in Merseyside

Two illegal workers have been arrested following an operation carried out by Immigration officers in Merseyside. On Thursday 3rd September, our officers visited two Chinese takeaways to carry out checks on the immigration status of staff.
At Mei Mei on Seaforth Road in Liverpool, a 30-year-old Chinese woman was arrested for working illegally.
Officers then arrested a 25-year-old Chinese man at Yum Yum, on Warrington Road in Penketh for overstaying his visa and working illegally. Both illegal workers are currently detained pending their removal from the UK.

Foreign made adverts

I’ll tell you what is really winding me up these days it’s adverts aimed at the UK market but clearly filmed abroad. These are easily spotted by the use of left-hooker jam jars ‘left hand cars’.
Here’s Fabrize one;

SEAT is another;

There’s shed loads of car adverts like these as well as other product adverts that are clearly dubbed sometimes looking in the background will see an American street scene or some European city. Apple are so blatant they are using American kids without the dubbing. I find these foreign adverts insulting, if a company is going to advertise their product in the UK they could at least have the decency to film it here. I’m spending more time studying adverts than watching the programmes these days, still it’s a break from picking up everything the Weller family buys to see if it’s made in China.

Nigerian sham marriage arrests

Four people have been arrested after a suspected sham wedding was stopped by officers at Belfast city hall.
On Wednesday 28th August, Lynda Kemisola Eremion a 29-year-old Nigerian woman who was in the country on a student visa was arrested along with her would-be groom, Adeshola Adekunie Bankole, 45, a British citizen. I thought it had been a bit quiet on the Nigerian sham marriages front.

The pair were interviewed and following a search carried out at an address, they claimed to be living at in east Belfast, Eremion was charged with attempting to obtain leave to remain in the UK by deception and Bankole with assisting unlawful immigration. Bankole, hmm I bet he got the piss taken out of him at school.

Anyway Eremion appeared at Belfast magistrates court on Thursday 29th August, to answer to the charges and was remanded in custody to re-appear at the same court at a later date.
Bankole along with Aitua Mercy Tosin a 37-year-old Nigerian woman who was acting as a witness to the ceremony were released after interview but will appear at Belfast magistrates court on 25th September to answer the charges. Tosin is also charged with assisting unlawful immigration.
Another 46-year-old Nigerian woman who was also acting as a witness was released after caution.

Talking about sham weddings

A Gambian man has been arrested moments before he was due to take part in a suspected sham marriage in Preston. Acting on a tip-off officers attended Preston register office, Park hotel on East Cliff on Friday 30th August. Just before the ceremony was due to begin officers intervened and the 39-year-old man, who had been living at an address in Preston, was arrested after checks revealed he was in the country illegally.
He had been due to marry a 57-year-old British woman who was interviewed by officers and later released. The wannabe ‘groom’ was detained pending his removal from the UK.

Scottish Regiment or Scottish Foreign Legion

Six British soldiers have been arrested in New York, in the early hours of Friday morning, after an off-duty NYPD policeman was beaten up and robbed outside a bar. The Royal Regiment of Scotland soldiers reportedly became embroiled in a row after travelling to Manhattan to play in a rugby match against the NYPD.
You would expect the surnames of the ‘sweaty socks’ (Jocks) to start with ‘Mac’ something or other wouldn’t you? But no the arrested soldiers names are; Iosefo Yavala, Iliakini Raderua, Thomas Shute, Felite Vunisarati, Mosese Kuruala and Joeli Raduva.

Third of NHS doctors are recruited abroad

NHS recruits thousands of doctors from Third World countries while limits on places deny British students chance to study medicine which means our straight-A students are being given the elbow from medical degrees. Apparently the Health Service is hiring one third of its doctors from 143 different nations.

If it’s not bad enough foreigners taking our jobs the number claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance is on the increase too

If Israel can chuck out foreigners why can’t we?

Syria

I’m ready if it all kicks off and we start lobbing million pound a pop cruise missiles into Syria. I got Mrs ‘W’ to stockpile my Liquorice Root supply, it’s a cure for all ills and ‘snake oil’ is hard to come by these days.

ASDA’s empty meat pies

Mrs ‘W’ does like a good bit of steak and kidney although she isn’t so keen on pastry but alas this week she bought some ASDA steak and kidney pies “chosen by you” according to the blurb on the box.

Come Saturday dinner the trouble and strife (wife) and me sat down at the Caine and Abel (table) with our pie, mash and peas when suddenly Mrs “W” shouts out “where’s me meat, this pie has got no meat”. She doesn’t like pastry so she has taken off the pie lid and was there searching around at the bottom of the pie for a bit of meat but alas all that was there was a half inch cube of meat certainly no kidney. So off comes my pie lid and my pie seems full of gravy only but on further investigation I find not one, not two, but three pieces of these half inch cubes of meat but no kidney either. I’ve hit the jackpot compared to Mrs W’s pie although for all intents and purposes my steak and kidney pie is empty too.

So come on ASDA what’s going on, somebody working their notice on the production line or plain and simple ripping off your customers. I recommend you delete the words ‘chosen by you” on the boxes because we certainly didn’t choose to buy a meat pie with no meat.

I would encourage the ‘Missus’ to shop elsewhere but the alternatives are Tesco with their pretend strawberry bargains or Sainsburys with their over inflated prices, what’s a shopper to do eh?

More photobombing from Luton’s Ahmed Rathore

I was just thinking the other day that I hadn’t been sent any info about Luton’s Rathore family lately, they were involved in fraudulent stuff like sham marriages and such like as well as being involved in local politics, you can find out more about the Rathores by putting their name in my search box on the left, when ‘boof’ an email turns up from our man in Luton. One of the family, Ahmed Rathore real name Siddique Ahmed Rathore – he was the geezer who was snapped with the ‘Old Bill’ at some posh ‘do’ which caused a stir in the local linen draper (newspaper) has upped the game in his photo bombing activities and has been pictured with Adam Johnson the British High Commissioner in Islamabad, Pakistan. Hmmm, I wonder what he has planned for Luton this time.

As an aside, according to the local community a house in Cornel Close that was given to Mr Rathore by the council has been taken back by them. The council not the community folk that is, this is because he was not living there but renting it out. He was actually living at the family address of 392 Selbourne Road. Incidently the Cornel Close address is the house fake marriage arranger Ashar Ali Rathore was arrested at by the UK Border Force.

Anyway to change the subject

Remember the other day I pointed out that our Premiership football teams seem to only buy foreign players these days. Well back in August 1992, 177 players, or 73.1%, who played in first-day first XIs held English nationality but this year that figure fell to 75, or 34.1%.