Four guilty of huge bogus student visa fraud

Four fraudsters who rigged English language tests for more than 800 bogus overseas students in a vast immigration scam are behind bars. The gang charged ‘very large sums of money’ to read out the answers to multiple-choice tests or provided substitutes to sit in the language exams on behalf of candidates. The ‘industrial scale’ fraud was first uncovered by an undercover BBC Panorama sting in 2014 which triggered a police investigation. Three firms involved also provided forged bank statements and…