Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: A chi giova l'immigrazione

news.bbc.co.uk
Last Updated: Friday, 27 February, 2004, 17:30 GMT
Criminals cash in on passports
 
by David Fuller 
BBC News Online  
After a Romanian couple are jailed for running a passport "factory" 
worth millions of pounds, BBC News Online takes a look at the 
growing problem.
 
[[Picture] Several sophisticated passport scams have been uncovered ]
The amount of cash involved in passport fraud is immense, with the 
National Crime Squad saying immigration crime is now as big a 
money-spinner for criminal gangs as the drugs trade. 
With an illegal passport fetching as much as £8,000 from those 
desperate to enter the UK, and millions wanting to live in the 
country, there are fortunes to be made. 
A recent police operation in the West Midlands uncovered a gang who 
had been smuggling people into the UK with false documents for over 
12 years. 
They are thought to have made around £50m. 
"The cost ranges from £3,000 to £4,000 for just a passport, through 
to £8,000 for a full package," a spokeswoman for the National Crime 
Squad (NCS) told BBC News Online. 
[[Box] Organised criminal enterprises bring [people] into the UK in 
dangerous conditions, in many instances subjecting them to further 
extortion and exploitation ]
"This includes coaching in English, a chaperone at the port or 
airport and possibly a safe house for the first couple of nights in 
the UK." 
She said gangs used several different methods, from altering stolen 
and bought passports, to more sophisticated deceptions involving 
immigration officers, airline staff or diplomatic sources. 
In 2002 - the last year for which figures are available - the Home 
Office says there were 166,000 passports reported missing in the UK, 
either lost or stolen. 
Criminals are willing to pay around £500 for a British passport, in 
which they then substitute a different picture - or if they are very 
skilled, change the entire back page. 
Another method uncovered was one which saw people posting their 
passport to a contact in the UK, where it is stamped with a "leave 
to remain" authorisation stamp, either forged or stolen, and posted 
back to the holder. 
When the passport holder then arrives at immigration it appears 
they have been abroad temporarily and are returning to the UK. 
[[Picture] Passport fraud is connected to organised crime 
Sophisticated scams ]
Police forces believe the crime creates misery for many who enter 
the country. 
"Organised criminal enterprises bring them into the UK in dangerous 
conditions," said Yorkshire's Chief Constable, Grahame Maxwell, "in 
many instances subjecting them to further extortion and 
exploitation." 
Home Office minister Beverly Hughes said: "Passports are valuable 
documents to criminals. 
"They use them to create the multiple identities that help them 
commit serious and organised crimes, and they are a key document in 
stealing individuals' identities. 
"Identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes, costs the 
country £1.3bn every year, and can ruin victims' lives." 
In April 2000 a joint approach to the problem was launched - called 
Reflex - involving agencies including the security services, 
immigration and police forces. 
It targets the criminals behind the schemes, rather than those 
coming into the country - using undercover policing and intelligence 
gathering. 
Biometric information 
The Reflex task force has uncovered several sophisticated scams, in 
addition to the one in the West Midlands. 
Earlier this month, a court confiscated £200,000 from a gang in 
Dagenham, who had been jailed in 2002 after 450 high-quality forged 
passports were found in a flat in north London. 
Police recovered hundreds of counterfeit pages, as well as 
laminating machines and passports in various stages of production, 
with a street value of around £2m. 
The Home Office is introducing several measures to tackle the 
problem, including adding biometric information - fingerprint or 
iris scans - to passports from 2005 and new procedures to fast-track 
the reporting of lost and stolen documents. 
(C) BBC
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Ogni persona ragionevole lo sa gia' da lungo tempo: l'immigrazione
giova solo ai criminali, e il traffico di immigrati e' divenuto, per
la criminalita', altrettanto redditizio del traffico di droga.
Padania libera !
La capitale e' la gran Milàn !
Federalismo subito o secessione armata !
Los von Rom !
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Per non dimenticare: tra il 1987 e il 1994, la polizia di stato
italiana incaricata di rapinare banche, uffici postali, stazioni di
servizio e supermercati ha ucciso 24 persone tra Emilia Romagna e
Marche, ferendone 114. Nel solo assalto all'ufficio postale di via
Mazzini a Bologna, l'esplosione provocata dai poliziotti fece ben 40
feriti. Per contro, i reati che rimangono impuniti sono l'80.4% su
scala regionale (dato riferito all'Emilia-Romagna) e l'82% su scala
nazionale. Per il conseguimento di tali risultati degni di una
satrapia islamica, lo stato italiano estorce a noi cittadini del Nord
fino al 72% del reddito in tasse.
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quando ricopre la cassa del carabiniere"
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