June 10, 2009 - By BNP News

The extent to which the Labour regime has betrayed Britain’s borders and left them open to invasion has been revealed in the sentencing of the leaders of an Afghan criminal network whose leaders boasted that they brought in over 1,800 illegals every two months.

The illegal invaders were then put to work in well-known pizza takeaway chains to pay off their ‘fees’ for being smuggled from Afghanistan to Britain.

Abdul Hameed Sakhizada, 32, and his brother Ahmed Shah Sakhizada, 23, both of Northampton, and Abdul Wakil Niazi, 35, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, ran what police believe to be one of the most lucrative smuggling networks ever uncovered in Britain.

The network operated for at least three years and detectives recorded Abdul Sakhizada claiming he smuggled at least 1,800 people into Europe in just over two months.

Sakhizada, who was jailed for nine years at Kingston crown court, south-west London for conspiracy to facilitate illegal immigration, was told by Judge Welchman: “You, as you boasted, were the smuggler of Europe.”

Niazi and Ahmed Sakhizada were also convicted of facilitating illegal immigration as well as conspiracy to launder the proceeds of crime. They were sentenced to 12 years and seven years.

The gang used agents to smuggle Afghans across Iran and Turkey, by sea to Greece and then, hidden in the backs of freight lorries, across Europe to Britain. Many paid off debts to their smugglers by working in a chain of 16 pizza takeaways in which the gang were involved. These included branches of well-known franchises Tops Pizza, Pizza GoGo and Perfect Pizza across southern England.

Abdul Sakhizada specialised in smuggling Afghans by sea from Turkey to the Greek islands, while Niazi operated the network of smugglers across Europe. The court heard that some of the smuggled Afghans were in debt bondage to Niazi. Ahmed Sakhizada provided false documents and transferred funds overseas.

The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which led the investigation, estimated the gang earned between £200,000 and £300,000 from 2005 to 2008 when they were arrested.

Before establishing their operation, Niazi and Abdul Sakhizada were themselves smuggled into the country. Niazi travelled from Parwan province in northern Afghanistan to Britain in the back of a lorry in 1999 and Sakhizada was smuggled from Mazir-el-Sharif but was deported from the UK once in 2003. He returned in a lorry in 2007. Immigration authorities granted them indefinite leave to remain.

Sakhizada offered to send clients across again without charge if they were caught and police recorded him saying he sent 20 people from his home town for free.

Raids by immigration officials uncovered 52 illegal workers, 42 of whom were claiming asylum, awaiting removal or had been allowed to remain. Ten were unknown to the authorities.

Ali Yazdi, director of Topps Pizza, claimed his company was not involved. Shar Shah, manager of Pizza GoGo head office also denied any involvement.  Readers can form their own opinions.

The ease with which these criminal invaders can penetrate Britain’s borders – while British soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan – is an indictment on the total failure of the Government to protect Britain, and on the utterly bogus asylum scam that has been created by years of Tory and Labour concessions to scroungers from around the globe.

* An Indian solicitor illegally living in Britain has been jailed for his part in one of Britain’s biggest visa scams. Jatinder Kumar Sharma ran an immigration consultancy in Southall, west London, along with two women he married in India, Isleworth Crown Court heard. Both Sharma and his second wife, Raki Shahi, were themselves illegal immigrants.

Police found 90,000 documents last year in a raid on a warehouse belonging to their company, Univisas, which is thought to have enabled thousands of illegal immigrants to obtain visas.

Sharma admitted conspiracy to defraud, possessing criminal property, two counts of theft, seeking or obtaining leave to enter or remain in the UK by deception and possession of an identity document with intent.