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Two crime bosses and members of a gang who supplied fraudulent passports - including to 'Premier League' cocaine kingpin Michael Moogan - have been convicted following an investigation spanning five years.
Anthony Beard, 61, and Christopher Zietek, 67, were caught providing fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to organised criminals in a covert sting.
Members of the criminal underworld paid between £5,0000 and £15,000 for the highly sought-after documents, which were issued authentically but applied for using false information.
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They were supplied to a number of high-profile offenders including the UK's former most wanted fugitive Michael Moogan. Drugs baron Moogan, 37, has been described as 'a major figure in international drug dealing' and who a judge said was operating at 'Premier League level' when he flooded the UK with 62 kilos of cocaine.
He spent eight years on the run after learning the National Crime Agency (NCA) were after him. He was eventually arrested in Dubai in 2021 and was last week jailed for 12 years at Manchester Crown Court.
Others to receive passports from Beard and Zietek's group were Glasgow murderers Jordan Owen and Christopher Hughes, Manchester fugitive David Walley, and suspected drug traffickers Barrie Gillespie, Jamie Stevenson and James White reports the Liverpool Echo.
An investigation by the NCA, codenamed Operation Strey, started in 2017 and ran in partnership with Dutch National Police and HM Passport Office - and was one of the most significant operations carried out in recent years. Beard and Zietek's crime group exploited vulnerable
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