{"id":83419,"date":"2025-11-06T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/criminal-network-behind-uk-mini-marts-enables-migrants-to-work-illegally-bbc-finds-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:44:48","slug":"criminal-network-behind-uk-mini-marts-enables-migrants-to-work-illegally-bbc-finds-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/criminal-network-behind-uk-mini-marts-enables-migrants-to-work-illegally-bbc-finds-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal network behind UK mini-marts enables migrants to work illegally, BBC finds | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kurdish crime network is enabling migrants to work illegally in mini-marts on High Streets the length of Britain, a <!--more--> BBC investigation has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The fake company directors are paid to put their names to official paperwork, and have dozens of businesses listed on Companies House, but are not involved in running them.<\/p>\n<p>Two undercover reporters, themselves Kurdish, posed as asylum seekers and were told how easy it would be for them to take over and run a shop and make big profits selling illegal vapes and cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has linked more than 100 mini-marts, barbershops and car washes, operating from Dundee to south Devon, to the crime network. <\/p>\n<p>But a financial crime investigator told the BBC he believes it goes much wider.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office said it will investigate the BBC&#8217;s findings.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kurdish crime network is enabling migrants to work illegally in mini-marts on High Streets the length of Britain, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}