Man granted asylum in UK for claiming to be gay arrested after siring THREE kids with THREE women
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An asylum seeker who won refugee status after claiming to be gay sires three kids with three different women
An asylum seeker who won refugee status after claiming to be gay sires three kids with three different women.
An asylum seeker who won refugee status after claiming to be gay went on to father three children with three different women and help mastermind a £220,000/Ksh41.5 million parcel fraud scam, a UK court has heard.
Saheed Azeez, 33, had been allowed to settle in the UK after claiming he faced persecution by Boko Haram militants.
However, after moving to the country he had three children with three women, marrying the third. He now says he is bisexual.
As he settled in Wigan, Greater Manchester, Azeez began working with Nigerian fraudsters to establish a network of strangers for a ‘sophisticated and well-resourced’ sales scam to steal items being sold on eBay, Facebook Marketplace, and WhatsApp.
Victims selling high-value goods would be persuaded to send their items to a number of addresses on the promise of being paid on arrival – but Azeez would simply pick up the goods and sell them in his brother’s electronics shop.
Over 14 months, up to 272 victims sent goods worth a combined £220,000 to the homes of strangers that Azeez persuaded to take part in the scam, giving his ‘partners’ a cut from each sale in return for taking delivery of the ill-gotten goods.
Police eventually tracked down Azeez as he was dropping off one of his young sons at primary school.
As he was about to be detained, he hid three smartphones used in the scam inside the boy’s school bag, which were found by a teaching assistant.
The phones were found to contain videos made by Azeez: one sent to an underworld contact named ‘Baddest Boy’ showed images of used smartphones stolen from sellers.
Most of the proceeds were spirited out of the UK using Bitcoin.
At Bolton Crown Court, Azeez admitted conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation and plotting to possess criminal property.
He will be sentenced next week but faces up to six years in jail.
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In mitigation, defence counsel Chloe Fordham said Azeez received only a ‘small percentage’ of the profits – adding that he fears being deported back to Nigeria ‘more than anything’ following his conviction.
Ms Fordham said: ‘Mr Azeez was born into a Muslim family in Nigeria but the sad reality was he and his family were persecuted in Nigeria.
‘He was exploited as a teenager and as an adult entered into a homosexual relationship although now he now considers himself to be bisexual.
‘As a result of that, he was targeted by Boko Haram and was told he was going to be killed. On one occasion he was badly beaten and tortured.
‘There is no question as to whether his account was credible. His gay partner arranged for him to escape to Nigeria but he was sadly later killed too.
‘When the defendant arrived here, he was homeless and he then moved to Bolton with a male who also exploited him and he was later diagnosed with depression and PTSD.
‘He now has three children in the UK by three different mothers and is married to the mother of the third child. He has parental responsibilities to all the children. He now considers himself to be bisexual.’
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