The closing down of Anthony Beard's passport operation, which is estimated to have netted about £1m, has resulted in the arrest of 50 fugitives and gangsters 🔎 cahalmilmo takes a look inside the sting that exposed it
, who spent more than two-and-a-half years on the run in Spain while wanted for drug smuggling offences. Detectives traced Acourt, who has always denied involvement in the Lawrence murder, after he had ordered a passport from Beard and was spotted on subsequent surveillance footage linked to the investigation.
Anthony Beard, 61, left, has been jalied along with Christopher Zietek, 67, centre, and Alan Thompson, 72, of obtaining genuine passports with false names to be used by criminals Beard, from Sydenham, south-east London, operated by recruiting “donors” from locations including homeless shelters, rehab centres and veterans’ groups. Either directly or through intermediaries, the fraudster would attempt to find individuals of a similar age and appearance to his gangster clients and pay each donor anywhere from £100 to £1,000 for their expired or near-expired passports and an undertaking to not apply for another passport for a decade.
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