ORGANISED CRIME AND ASYLUM SEEKING
1 March 2005
The Detainee Support and Help Unit, a lottery funded charity which has received £350,000 of lottery money to assist asylum seekers, has had its funds frozen after claims that its manager, Comfort Afolabi, had helped asylum seekers obtain forged identity papers.
She was recorded helping a Radio Five Live undercover reporter to get a forged passport and national insurance number. Mrs Afolabi, who is a Nigerian, advised the undercover reporter, who was posing as a Zimbabwean asylum seeker, that she could put him in touch with a contact who would supply the false papers.
The reporter duly met Mrs Afolabi’s contact and paid £400, but did not receive the fake documents.
Mrs Afolabi denies the charges.
The money given to this ‘charity’ was awarded by the National Lottery Community Fund, which has now been wound up.
The Detainee Support and Help Unit, a lottery funded charity which has received £350,000 of lottery money to assist asylum seekers, has had its funds frozen after claims that its manager, Comfort Afolabi, had helped asylum seekers obtain forged identity papers.
She was recorded helping a Radio Five Live undercover reporter to get a forged passport and national insurance number. Mrs Afolabi, who is a Nigerian, advised the undercover reporter, who was posing as a Zimbabwean asylum seeker, that she could put him in touch with a contact who would supply the false papers.
The reporter duly met Mrs Afolabi’s contact and paid £400, but did not receive the fake documents.
Mrs Afolabi denies the charges.
The money given to this ‘charity’ was awarded by the National Lottery Community Fund, which has now been wound up.
posted by erc @ 8:37 pm
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