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Two arrests over allegations of fake gay asylum claims in the UK · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: Coming up. Bye-bye, buttercup. First, though, two arrests over allegations
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  Speaker 1: of fake gay asylum claims in the UK. It's alleged
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  Speaker 1: the pair are part of a gang providing bogus evidence
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  Speaker 1: to men from Bangladesh about their sexuality. Gay people aren't
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  Speaker 1: safe there, and if UK immigration authorities are successfully conned,
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  Speaker 1: these guys won't be sent back home. Enforcement officer Chris
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  Speaker 1: Foster telling the BBC none of this comes for free,
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  Speaker 1: of course. We've got some intelligence that they can provide
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  Speaker 1: fake letters and documents and they could charge anywhere between £ 1, 000
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  Speaker 1: and £ 4, 500. Includes the likes of staged photos and testimonies
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  Speaker 1: from non-existent friends. As part of all this, immigration authorities
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  Speaker 1: have been investigating Apanjan, a Bangladeshi LGBTQ plus organisation based
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  Speaker 1: in East London... And earlier this year, the BBC says
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  Speaker 1: it found a secret network of law firms and immigration
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  Speaker 1: advisers also providing fake evidence on sexuality. Next, what to
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