An armed robber has been convicted of a passport scam helping Scots gangsters flee
Ex-soldier Chris Zietek, 67, known as The Commander, supplied the dodgy documents for £5000-£15,000.Killer Christopher Hughes, cocaine kingpins Barry and James Gillespie and hitman Jordan Owens were amongIt was claimed Hughes used a phoney one to evade capture in 2018 after being held over a fight in a Portuguese kebab shop.
the course of justice, conspiracy to make a false instrument and money laundering at Reading Crown Court. 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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