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Two men convicted in billion-dollar money laundering case deported to Cambodia

Two men convicted in billion-dollar money laundering case deported to Cambodia

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[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Two men convicted in Singapore’s largest money laundering case were deported to Cambodia on Monday (May 6). Su Wenqiang and Wang Baosen, both 32, are barred from re-entering Singapore, an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) spokesperson said in response to CNA’s queries. Su was the first suspect to plead guilty in the case and was sentenced to 13 months’ jail on Apr 2. He pleaded guilty to 11 charges of money laundering, possessing proceeds from illegal remote gambling offences and lying to get work passes for himself and his wife. Authorities had seized more than S$5.9 million (US$4.4 million) from Su in the form of cash, vehicles, luxury items and liquor. Su is a Cambodian national whose passport states that he is from Fujian, China. Wang, a Chinese national, was sentenced to 13 months’ jail on Apr 16 after pleading guilty to one charge each of possessing almost S$600,000 in illegal proceeds in his wife’s bank account and for laundering another S$1.48 million to buy a luxury Park Nova apartment in Tomlinson Road. Six other charges were …

No, The Government Has Not Just Deported Its First Migrant To Rwanda

No, The Government Has Not Just Deported Its First Migrant To Rwanda

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[ad_1] The government has not actually deported any migrants to Rwanda yet, despite claims to the contrary. Tory MP Jonathan Gullis tried to tout the success of the scheme in PMQs on Wednesday, saying: “We can see the Rwanda deterrent is working, and we have now deported our first illegal migrant.” Actually, the government paid a failed asylum seeker £3,000 to move to Rwanda. That’s a different scheme to the deportation programme which has caused the government so much legal trouble. The migrant in question is understood not to have arrived in the UK via a small boat, either – and the Rwanda scheme is meant to deter the number of asylum seekers who arrive at British shores illegally. The Sun reported on Tuesday night that a migrant was offered a chance to start anew in Africa after his asylum claim was rejected in the UK at the end of 2023. He flew to the African country on a commercial flight on Monday. On top of the £3,000 lump sum, the unnamed volunteer will be …

Father of girl who died in Channel says family feared being deported to Iraq | Immigration and asylum

Father of girl who died in Channel says family feared being deported to Iraq | Immigration and asylum

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[ad_1] The father of a seven-year-old girl crushed to death on a small boat has said they tried to cross the Channel after being informed his young family would be deported to Iraq after spending years in Europe. Ahmed Alhashimi, 41, lost grasp of his daughter, Sara, on an inflatable dinghy after a large group of men rushed onboard as it was pulling away from the shores of Wimereux, south of Calais. Sara was trampled as Alhashimi, who was also travelling with his wife, Nour AlSaeed, 13-year-old daughter, Rahaf, and eight-year-old son, Hussam, became jammed in and unable to reach her. Sara was one of five people who died in the crush last Tuesday. Speaking to the BBC, Alhashimi, who said he left Basra in Iraq 14 years ago after being threatened by militia, said Sara had been born in Belgium and lived in Sweden but that his multiple applications for asylum in EU countries had been rejected. “If I knew there was a 1% chance that I could keep the kids in Belgium or …

Rishi Sunaks Plan Trafficking Victims Deported To Rwanda

Rishi Sunaks Plan Trafficking Victims Deported To Rwanda

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[ad_1] Victims of torture and human trafficking will be deported to Rwanda under Rishi Sunak’s plan to tackle illegal immigration, a minister has confirmed. Michael Tomlinson made the admission as he clashed with Mishal Husain on Radio Four’s Today programme this morning. His comments came after parliament finally passed the prime minister’s flagship Safety of Rwanda Bill last night. The PM said yesterday that the first deportation flights to east Africa will take place in 10-12 weeks and that it would deter people from trying to make the perilous crossing. Tomlinson, the illegal migration minister, was asked by Husain whether some asylum seekers will be exempted because of the circumstances behind their arrival in the UK. She said: “If you’re a victim of torture, can you still be removed under this?” The minister replied: “Rwanda is a safe country and yes, it will be possible to remove those to Rwanda.” Husain said: “Understood. So any victim of torture, no point applying [for exemption] on that basis. Victim of trafficking?” Tomlinson responded: “Rwanda is a safe …

Used, abused and deported: migrant workers land back in Bangladesh after Saudi dreams turn sour | Bangladesh

Used, abused and deported: migrant workers land back in Bangladesh after Saudi dreams turn sour | Bangladesh

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[ad_1] Among the joyful family reunions at the arrivals gate at Dhaka’s international airport, one group of travellers stands out. These men appear gaunt and dazed, most of them carrying nothing but a thin blanket they picked up on the plane. They wear tracksuits and blue rubber sandals or shoes without laces. Some walk barefoot. All have just been deported from Saudi Arabia, and each day they arrive by the planeload. Nearly 70,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers were deported from the Gulf kingdom in 2022, mostly for not having a valid residence permit, known as an iqama. They return from one of the wealthiest countries in the world, hungry, traumatised and without even the money to buy a bus ticket home. The only thing the men do bring back are horrific stories of abuse, false contracts and wage theft that tumble angrily out of them. One man, Amir Hossein, says he paid recruitment agents 400,000 taka (£2,860) to get to Saudi Arabia, but has been sent home after just over a year, during which he worked for nine months …

Trump says Prince Harry could be deported from US over drug use – POLITICO

Trump says Prince Harry could be deported from US over drug use – POLITICO

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[ad_1] “Which might mean … not staying in America?” interviewer Nigel Farage asked, to which a seemingly coy Trump answered: “Oh I don’t know. You’ll have to tell me. You just have to tell me.” Prince Harry’s visa status has been at the center of a legal row since an American conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, last year sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for access to his immigration records. Applicants for certain American visas typically must disclose whether they have ever taken drugs, and doing so can result in their application being denied. Other public figures have run into issues entering the U.S. over their reported drug use. In his memoir “Spare,” Harry admitted to using various drugs and psychedelics including cocaine, marijuana and magic mushrooms, but it’s unclear whether he declared this on his visa application. Right-wing commentators in both the U.S. and U.K. have turned against Harry and his wife Meghan Markle since their controversial exit from the royal family and move to the U.S. Trump, who has dominated the …

France’s new immigration law allows migrants to be swiftly deported | Politics | News

France’s new immigration law allows migrants to be swiftly deported | Politics | News

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[ad_1] France has used tough new immigration laws to expel a “radical” imam who made “unacceptable” comments about the country’s flag. Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi appeared to call the French flag “satanic” in a video widely shared on the internet earlier this week. Now the country’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said immigration reforms have allowed a super swift deportation of Mr Mahjoubi. Mr Mahjoubi, who originally comes from Tunisia but has lived in France for 38 years, was an imam at the Ettaouba mosque in the small town of Bagnols-sur-Cèze, in the south of France. He was arrested after a clip showed him calling a “tricolour flag” “satanic” and saying it has “no value with Allah”. On Thursday Mr Darmanin wrote on X that he had asked for an expulsion order to be issued for Mahjoub Mahjoubi. He went on to praise tough new immigration laws that makes it easier for France to deport foreign residents. “Instructions were given to issue a ministerial expulsion order against this radical ‘imam’ who made unacceptable remarks and he …

Jamaican man to be deported from UK after previous attempt was halted by fellow passengers | Immigration and asylum

Jamaican man to be deported from UK after previous attempt was halted by fellow passengers | Immigration and asylum

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[ad_1] A Jamaican man whose deportation was halted last November after passengers on a BA flight from Gatwick to Kingston protested when they witnessed him being restrained on board, is due to be deported on Sunday. Lawrence Morgan, 27, has convictions for serious firearms and drugs offences. During the Home Office’s attempt to deport him last November, passengers on the flight protested after seeing him being restrained by escorts at the back of the plane. Morgan spoke to the Guardian while detained in Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick airport on Saturday and again while en route to the airport on Sunday morning. He claimed escorts taking him to the airport had used excessive force against him and said he was being escorted by armed police. He is due to fly on a Norse Atlantic Airlines commercial passenger flight due to take off from Gatwick to fly to Montego Bay at noon on Sunday. Deportations to Jamaica are particularly controversial because some of those deported have lived in the UK since childhood and some …

Deported and disgraced: the students wrongly accused of cheating – podcast | News

Deported and disgraced: the students wrongly accused of cheating – podcast | News

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[ad_1] “You tell me, are you finding it difficult to understand my English?” says Muhammad Ali. Muhammad was in the UK to study between the ages of 18 and 26 but had his visa cancelled in 2014 when the Home Office accused him of cheating on an English language exam. He was one of 35,000 students whose visas were cancelled. He was denied an in-country appeal, and returned to his home in Pakistan. He lost his career, has been unable to travel and, a decade later, some of his family still believe the Home Office over him. “Who’s going to bring my time back? How long do I have to live with this tag of con artist or a cheat?” Amelia Gentleman, reporter and author of The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment, tells Nosheen Iqbal how the government handled the initial allegations exposed on a BBC Panorama investigation in 2014, and explores why nothing has been done since to help those wrongly swept up in the aftermath. Another former student Shana Shaikh has stayed …

Woman, 22, faces being deported despite living in the UK all her life | UK News

Woman, 22, faces being deported despite living in the UK all her life | UK News

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[ad_1] Emma has spent her whole life thinking she was a British citizen. Born in the UK to a Portuguese mother, she has only ever lived here and has a British birth certificate. So it came as a huge surprise when the 22-year-old’s request for a British passport was rejected. Following Brexit, EU citizens living in the UK were offered the chance to apply for settled status. Last year, however, Emma realised she had missed the deadline to apply. She understood she was not officially a British citizen when she applied to be a care worker and needed to show the right to work. She is not allowed to appeal the Home Office’s decision and risks being removed to a country she has never lived in. “When I got the rejection letter I was basically told how to leave the country,” she said, adding that she was “shocked”. “There’s a high chance I could be deported to Portugal and I would be separated from my family,” Emma (not her real name) said. “I would have …