Language tests for immigrants rigged

Nine fraudsters have been convicted of rigging English language tests for more than 800 bogus overseas students in a vast immigration scam, it can be revealed. 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…