Exposed: Home Office translators running lucrative scam to spring illegal immigrants from detention (UK)

Home Office translators are running a lucrative scam to spring illegal immigrants from detention, an undercover Mail investigation has discovered. Interpreters charge £3,000 to act as witnesses to lie to a judge and secure bail for Albanians caught coming into the UK with fake passports or on small boats and lorries. The bogus guarantors vouch for the immigrants who they promise the court will stay at their home if released. But in reality they have no connection with the detainees they testify on behalf of and are happy for them to live anywhere – including beyond the control of the...