Pair found guilty of running 'fraud factory'

http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/crime-court/newham_pair_found_guilty_of_running_fraud_factory_1_4265339

also

http://news.met.police.uk/news/three-guilty-of-possessing-equipment-to-make-passports-131869

09 October 2015

Newham pair found guilty of running ‘fraud factory’

A trio of scam-artists have today been found guilty of running a fraud “factory” making counterfeit documents, including passports.

Tayyab Ahmed Al-Riaz, 34, of Western Road, Plaistow, Valentina Miu, 31, of Wolsey Road, East Ham, and Muhammed Saleem, 28, of Mottisfont Road, Abbey Wood, were convicted of a combined total of ten counts of fraud and making false identity documents at Southwark Crown Court.

Further enquiries led detectives to identify a bank account held by Miu, which had £10,000 paid into it and was believed to be fraudulently obtained.

Altogether, more than £170,000 had been laundered through that account alone, police said, which was later recovered by the bank.

Saleem was arrested on Sunday 6 December, 2014 after police linked him to a separate case where two men were stopped by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) at Dover a week earlier and found to be in possession of false identity documents.

Not a good idea to attract the attention of Counter Terrorism Police.

L-R: Tayyab Ahmed Al-Riaz; Muhammed Saleem; Valentina Miu