Migrant bribe exposea
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By Ashworth FIRST Mark Thatcher's dodgy Mid-East contract and now revelations of a racket in the Department of Employment. Things aren't going too well for a would-be pristine pure government.
Details of a Scotland Yard investigation into the activities of one Reuben Davis are emerging.
Davis seems • to have been running a "service' for people wanting to move to Britain but forbidden by the racist immigration laws.
Davis, self-advertised as an "aid to foreigners who couldn't understand the complex immigration procedures" would, it is alleged, forge documents and pass them on to his hired help in the DE who would then authorise a work permit. Davis is now in America and the police have spent 18 months looking out for his accomplice in the DE.
Alex Lyon, a minister in the Home Vitice in 19/5 tirst sounded the alarm bells about Davis. He thought he was a danger to immigrants. But it seems no-one, certainly not Roy Jenkins, the then Home Secretary, was very interested. Now that corruption in the civil service is involved the case is being taken up.
Davis does seem • to be a racketeer, his running mate Hill appeared in court last week and told how Davis never had a permanent office and would run his business from odd telephones and other people's premises. Hill said he believed Davis's story that he was trying to keep down his client's costs. Hill got a year's probation.
Unfortunately the inquiries at the DE will involve chasing up permits which are thought to be fraudulent, which means harassment of immigrants, some of whom have been charged up • to €10,000 by Davis for the privilege. Bribe-taker Reuben Davis