{"id":332832,"date":"2025-12-24T06:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T06:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:12:33","slug":"immigration-officers-charged-with-theft-from-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332832\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration officers charged with theft from migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charges follow a Home Office investigation into thefts and money laundering between  August 2021 and November 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Besmir Matera, 36, from Reigate, Surrey, is charged with conspiracy to steal, misconduct in public office, concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property, obtaining leave to enter to remain in the United Kingdom by deception, and three counts of possession of an identity document with improper intention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Mitchell, 33, of Dover, Kent, is charged with conspiracy to steal, misconduct in public office, and concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lee-Ann Evanson, 42, of Bracknell, Berkshire, is charged with conspiracy to steal, misconduct in public office, and concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Bernthal, 53, of Welling, south-east London, is charged with conspiracy to steal, misconduct in public office, and concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Edwardes, 45, of Bexleyheath, south-east London, is charged with conspiracy to steal, misconduct in public office, and concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Grundy, 43, of Croydon, south London, is charged with concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The six are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on 29 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charges follow a Home Office investigation into thefts and money laundering between August 2021 and November 2022.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-332832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}