--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: clips@philodox.com Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:47:57 -0400 To: Philodox Clips List <clips@philodox.com> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com> Subject: [Clips] Sophisticated: But Forgers Are Jailed Reply-To: rah@philodox.com Sender: clips-bounces@philodox.com <http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1210608,00.html> Sky News: Jail For Passport Forgers Updated: 07:31, Saturday January 28, 2006 Two Algerian-born men who ran a sophisticated forgery racket have been jailed for two-and-a-half years each. The pair churned out hundreds of fake passports, national insurance cards, driving licences, identity cards and utility bills for illegal immigrants and criminals. Noureddine Hadadj, 39, and Rezki Bensayah, 34, used a flat above a cafe in Brixton, south London, as the base for their hi-tech operation. Hadadj made the papers on computers while Bensayah, a drug addict, took orders from customers and sold the documents on. Police found 50 counterfeit passports - British, French, Belgian and Portuguese - in the flat, in Acre Lane. There were 55 French national insurance cards and 1,941 blank national insurance cards, Inner London Crown Court heard. Detectives discovered 66 UK driving licences and 57 driving licences from other European countries. The forgers' flat There were also more than 20,000 blank credit card-sized documents waiting to be made into forgeries. The hi-tech factory contained three laptops, two PCs, six printers, two scanners, a laminator, four card-printing machines and a card reader. There were further documents on computers including 450 UK driving licences, seven Spanish passports and parts of 22 other passports. Also on computer were two UN cards for use in Kosovo and an immigration and naturalisation department Home Office stamp. At Hadadj's Brixton flat police found #64,410 in cash in a suitcase. Both men admitted four counts of conspiracy to make false instruments. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' _______________________________________________ Clips mailing list Clips@philodox.com http://www.philodox.com/mailman/listinfo/clips --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'