London: Three British Sikhs have admitted to a scam under which they misused the passports of their family members to help Afghan asylum seekers enter the UK in 2014 wearing the traditional turbans to hide identity.
Cousins Daljit Kapoor and Harmit Kapoor, and Davinder Chawla, all three in their 40s, pleaded guilty before their trial at Inner London Crown Court on Tuesday.
They admitted two charges of conspiracy to help asylum seekers from Afghanistan to enter the UK illegally between May and June 2014 and will be sentenced later this month.
It's a Sikh conspiracy and it's occurring because it's very difficult for the authorities at the border control to distinguish who's who on the passports," prosecutor Edward Aydin had said at an earlier hearing at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court.
Around 30 Afghans are said to have successfully claimed asylum after paying the three fraudsters 12,000 pounds per family to enter the UK.
Once in the country, the gang retrieved the passports and reused them with new families.
He had been jailed for his part in an identical crime in February 2011, along with four other men.
A fourth suspect, 41-year-old Joginder Dawan, pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to help asylum seekers enter the UK and one charge of assisting the offence by allowing his passport to be used to book flights and travel.
Cousins Daljit Kapoor and Harmit Kapoor, and Davinder Chawla, all three in their 40s, pleaded guilty before their trial at Inner London Crown Court on Tuesday.
They admitted two charges of conspiracy to help asylum seekers from Afghanistan to enter the UK illegally between May and June 2014 and will be sentenced later this month.
It's a Sikh conspiracy and it's occurring because it's very difficult for the authorities at the border control to distinguish who's who on the passports," prosecutor Edward Aydin had said at an earlier hearing at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court.
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Around 30 Afghans are said to have successfully claimed asylum after paying the three fraudsters 12,000 pounds per family to enter the UK.
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Once in the country, the gang retrieved the passports and reused them with new families.
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He had been jailed for his part in an identical crime in February 2011, along with four other men.
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A fourth suspect, 41-year-old Joginder Dawan, pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to help asylum seekers enter the UK and one charge of assisting the offence by allowing his passport to be used to book flights and travel.
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