Criminals paid up to £15,000 for the dodgy documents.
Armed robber Chris Zietek, 67, known as The Commander, supplied the dodgy documents to criminals for £5000-£15,000. The scam saw fugitives assume identities of drunks and drug addicts to evade justice.
It was claimed Hughes used a phoney one to evade capture in 2018 after being held over a fight in a Portuguese kebab shop. Zietek was convicted of armed robbery in the 70s and became an enforcer for the Adams crime family in London. He recruited addicts in London and Kent and used their identities to apply for passports, substituting the photos for those of his customers.
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