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MEMBERS of a crime gang that supplied scam passports to some of Glasgow's most notorious gangland figures have been jailed.

Drug dealers has beenjailed. they included anthony beard, who paid vulnerable people to hand over their expired passports so he could apply for renewals using fugitives' photos. the judge said the scheme enabled very wicked, sophisticated and violent criminals to escape justice. the prime minister rishi sunak has pledged to make it easier to source our own food in the uk. it came as he met food manufacturers, supermarket bosses and farming organisations at downing street to discuss food price inflation and security of supplies. coinciding with the meeting, the consumer group which? said the pr...

In, arranging the renewal of innocent people's passports but with the photographs of criminals who needed a new identity. long time criminal chris mccormack was the link with the customers, but it was beard who would call the passport office posing as different passport holders. good afternoon. thank you for calling her majesty's passport 0ffice, you're speaking gillian, how can i help you? anthony beard, who's 61, pleaded guilty to making false documents. today he was jailed for six years and eight months. no comment. daniel sandford, bbc news at reading crown court.

His customers included christopher hughes, a murderer captured in turin, and another killer, jordan 0wens, who was arrested in lisbon. both were suspected members of a glasgow drugs gang. liverpool drug trafficker michael moogan was arrested in dubai. another customer was christy kinahan, the alleged leader of a major irish drug cartel who has a reward of $5 million on his head. investigators say the criminals would pay up to £20,000 for a passport. these people were, i would say, at the top end of serious organised crime. they've made an awful lot of money out of organised criminality, both ...