![]() ![]() ![]() They were paid for providing their expired passports and their details were then used to apply for new ones but with photographs of the criminals. Beard and Zietek's crime group exploited vulnerable people - often with drink or drug issues - who were around the same age as their clients and with similar facial features. The NCA's investigation 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. Other recipients of the passports included Glasgow murderers Jordan Owen and Christopher Hughes, Manchester fugitive David Walley, and suspected drug traffickers Barrie Gillespie, Jamie Stevenson and James White. READ MORE: Thomas Cashman murder trial resumes as man accused of shooting schoolgirl Olivia Pratt-Korbel ![]() ![]() Moogan was collared in Dubai in 2021 and jailed last week to 12 years at Manchester Crown Court. The 37-year-old drug trafficker, branded a "Premier League" cocaine kingpin, spent eight years on the run after getting wind the NCA were seeking his arrest. The passports were supplied to a number of offenders including former UK's most wanted fugitive Michael Moogan. Customers paid between £5-15,000 for the highly sought after documents which were issued authentically but applied for using false information. Two crime bosses who supplied fraudulent passports to the UK's most wanted fugitive Michael Moogan have been convicted after a five year probe.Īnthony Beard, 61, and Christopher Zietek, 67, were caught after a covert surveillance operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) found they had provided fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to organised criminals. ![]()
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