Lawyers are charging thousands of pounds to make bogus asylum and human rights claims for illegal immigrants, it has been revealed.
Evidence of this was confirmed by a case where staff at solicitor firms readily agreed to help a man posing as an economic migrant to obtain refugee status, reports the Daily Mail.
An undercover reporter of the Daily Mail news agency has posed as an economic migrant.
The said solicitor firm has agreed to handle the legal proceedings to grant him asylum on the background that he arrived there illegally in a small boat and that he has no legitimate reason to stay in the UK.
VP Lingajoti, a legal adviser, has demanded £10,000 from the country’s currency to create a story with a horrific background for the Indian reporter, the impersonated immigrant, to use in his asylum application.
The story included claims of sexual torture, assault, slave labour, false imprisonment and death threats, which led to him committing suicide and fleeing to the UK, the Daily Mail said.
The legal counsel has also promised to obtain a medical report to back up this story to be applied to the asylum application.
The legal advisor has prepared a medical report as ‘evidence’ of the mental trauma caused to the immigrant due to being subjected to the above-mentioned assaults, and the related legal advisor has prepared the background for the release of the drugs so as to prove that the person in question used anti-depressants.
The reports are prepared for delivery to the local affairs office of the country.
The undercover reporter posing as the migrant has reported that legal counsel Rashid Ahmed Khan told him he could not help him apply for asylum unless he agreed to lie to the UK Local Affairs Office that his return to his homeland would be a life-threatening situation.
A lawyer from another firm said he would have to ‘create evidence’ to show that the migrant had a genuine fear of ‘persecution and killing’ if he returned home.
Another law firm boasted a success rate of more than 90% in the refugee cases their firm handled.
The law firm said the ‘subtle ingredients’ used in such an asylum case could include anti-government political allegiances, a romance with someone of the wrong caste or being gay to show that the reporter is in fear of life in the homeland.
Two other legal advisers told the migrant to falsely claim to be a ‘victim of human trafficking’ who had been chased away, betrayed and abandoned by smugglers.
The news also reported that many law firm staff members, including Lingajothi, who owns a multi-million-pound property with his family, enjoy wealth and fame from such asylum cases, using luxury cars with personalized number plates and providing comfort to their children. Some who submit false asylum claims with their help to the UK government are jailed after being proved that they are falsified.
The news reports that a certain legal consultancy firm in the United Kingdom has been shut down and several others have been subjected to legal measures due to the disclosure of such facts.