INTCAS
“INTCAS”, Zakaria Saqib Mahmood’s
student visa fraud machine exposed
Hundreds of foreign students who
attended approved colleges by INTCAS could be forced to leave the UK
What is INTCAS?
Zakaria Mahmood is becoming a known name in the UK bogus college field. A
London based ex-convict who was convicted for child molesting in London and
also under suspicion of recruiting for ISIS in Bangladesh; has opened a new
company called INTCAS in the last few years.
This company on paper is
“a platform connecting students from across the world to work
collaboratively with the global education industry”. However, we have found
that this is not exactly true. And it is far from any reality.An undercover
probe found widespread cheating and fraud within INTCAS student visa system
which allows about 4,000 foreigners to come into the country annually,
prompting the government to suspend the crucial English language tests and
forging visa documents.
A couple of INTCAS staff was found
helping overseas students pass English language exams, obtain false documents
and doctor their academic records by our investigation. In one case, an
undercover reporter paid £1,500 cash to INTCAS office in London for a
“guaranteed pass” in an official English test, staged as part of a requirement
to prove applicants have the necessary language skills to gain a visa to study
at a UK university.
A Home Office statement said: “We
have taken action and suspended a couple of colleges already working with
INTCAS”. It is good to remind our readers that Zakaria Mahmood previously had
run another bogus college in Forest Gate, London called “Sinclair Adamson
Business School”. This college was raided and shut down by UK Border Agency
authorities in 2012. At this college, 397 Pakistani students with no right to
work in Britain were caught earning more than £20,000 a year – potentially
depriving Britons of a job. At the same college, 62 bogus students wrongly
pocketed benefits including housing.
Whistle blowers said INTCAS andZakaria Saqib Mahmood personally source “fake exam sitters” in order to answer
questions or invigilators read out the answers for the candidates. The “fake
sitters” submitted their answers to a secure terminal, while the real
candidates were called to be photographed as “proof” of taking the test. INTCAS
normally charges £2,000 cash in hand for an English test. Forging other
academic documents could range from £3,000 to £6,000. In some cases, INTCAS and
Zakaria have found forging bachelor degrees for applicants in order to get them
postgraduate admissions.
INTCAS and Working with Bogus
Colleges
INTCAS has a limited list of bogus colleges which they work with. They only are able get admission from these low quality / low grade colleges. For example, there is no way that any decent university or higher education institution in the UK work with an organised visa scam scheme like INTCAS.
INTCAS has a limited list of bogus colleges which they work with. They only are able get admission from these low quality / low grade colleges. For example, there is no way that any decent university or higher education institution in the UK work with an organised visa scam scheme like INTCAS.
Zakarakia Mahmood, by his scam
vehicle INTCAS, gets a CAS number from those bogus colleges. The unique CAS
number allows the students to obtain a “Tier-4 student visa” and enter to the
UK “legally”. However, more than 80% of these students never show up in any of
the colleges. As part of an unwritten deal between INTCAS and the students they
will never attend the school. They directly go into the shadows working
illegally, joining drugs and grooming gangs or becoming asylum seekers in the
UK. INTCAS charges something £10,000 to £15,000 for this service.
Zakaria Mahmood has its own INTCAS agents in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. They recruit asylum seekers from those countries and charge them that amount of money for obtaining CAS number and student visa for them.
A whistle blower mentioned that Zakaria and INTCAS have pocketed around £500K only in summer 2015 refugee crisis. They have imported hundreds of asylum seekers under the brand of students in June to September 2015 period.
Zakaria Mahmood has its own INTCAS agents in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. They recruit asylum seekers from those countries and charge them that amount of money for obtaining CAS number and student visa for them.
A whistle blower mentioned that Zakaria and INTCAS have pocketed around £500K only in summer 2015 refugee crisis. They have imported hundreds of asylum seekers under the brand of students in June to September 2015 period.
The truth is that INTCAS works as
an agent between bogus colleges and bogus foreign students who eventually
become illegals or asylum seekers. These so-called students’ intentions to
enter the UK could be anything but attending the college. Our report shows most
of these students end up working illegally, claiming benefits, committing petty
crimes and other social nuisances. In one case, one of INTCAS colleges (called
London Spectrum College) had no teachers.
INTCAS, an Example of a Bigger
Problem
INTCAS is only one of the several institutions committing crimes and forging
documents. The ongoing “significant abuse” of Britain’s border controls by
bogus students was revealed in government papers recently.
Foreign students are illegally
working for five-figure salaries and claiming benefits, as well as pretending
to attend courses that have no teachers.
But a detailed Home Office blitz planned by Theresa May against the migrants and their colleges was being blocked by the previous government.
But a detailed Home Office blitz planned by Theresa May against the migrants and their colleges was being blocked by the previous government.
A leaked Cabinet letter written by
the Home Secretary reveals that, despite a concerted government crackdown on
bogus colleges, “abuse of the system has evolved, not disappeared”. This
suggests that, nationwide, thousands of students may be guilty of working
illegally. Investigators also discovered that one INTCAS approved college
claimed it had 350 students but only 16 were attending classes. It had
recruited 170 more to study at a campus that has no teachers.
Students were regularly found to
be living too far away to attend their courses. One college in Belfast had
enrolled youngsters who claimed to be commuting from Birmingham. Regarding this
scandal, we tried to contact INTCAS office and talk to Zakaria Saqib
Mahmood by telephone. However, they refused to provide any answer. Hundreds
of foreign students who attended approved colleges by INTCAS could be forced to
leave the UKmore than £20,000 a year – potentially depriving Britons of a job.
At the same college, 62 bogus students wrongly pocketed benefits including
housing.
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