Two men who led a crime group have been jailed for supplying fraudulent passports which enabled murderers and drug traffickers to evade justice in the UK and cross international borders undetected.
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Anthony Beard, 61, and Christopher Zietek, 67, were caught after a covert surveillance operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) found they provided fraudulently obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to organised criminals over a five-year period.
Customers paid between £5,000 and £20,000 for the sought-after documents, which were issued authentically but applied for using false information.
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