they were accused of cheating in the english language exams needed for their visas to study or work in the uk. the immigration enforcement action followed an undercover investigation by the bbc s panorama programme which revealed organised fraud in the uk s visa system in 2014. the chair of parliament s public accounts committee says the bbc s new evidence points towards a serious miscarriage of justice. richard watson reports. eight years ago, secret filming for panorama revealed mass cheating in exams called toeics, test of english for international communication. at an exam centre in east london, the real candidates stood aside while paid cheats took the speaking test. should i stand here? all right, guys, keep it quiet, 20 seconds. then home secretary theresa may was appalled. what panorama has uncovered is extremely important, it s very shocking and i want to do
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who are part of the regime. we should who are part of the regime. - should welcome those russians who come here and genuinely want to settle here and whose money is legitimate, not laundered money stolen from the russian people. but many of the people who have settled status in the uk came in through the golden visa system which was a system established under the previous labour government and carried on under the conservative government, whereby if you had a lot of money, you could jump through all the loops of immigration checks, and you got a golden visa into the uk. now, at the height of that, i think it was about 2014, over 1100 people settled here in the uk, got a golden visa. 0f settled here in the uk, got a golden visa. of those 1100 people, 60% were either russian or chinese, and that was ain which there was kleptocrats,
alumni. emma sinclairjoins me now. how did this come together? by accident. in the middle of last week, a lot of customers, friends in predominantly ftse properties were all keen to find a way to help and there was no direct way to do so. there was a lot of wandering around wanting to say we can offerjobs and resettlement and we d like to help with language training, but no clarity on how to do that. the coalition is actually a group of people that came together on saturday and sunday. we are now well past the hundred large businesses who are keen to recognise that when somebody arrives here that a way to make sure they settle in is to provide a living. make sure they settle in is to provide a living. that is great if ou have provide a living. that is great if you have the provide a living. that is great if you have the vacancies - provide a living. that is great if you have the vacancies and i provide a living. that is great if you have the vacancies and are j you have the vacancie
of course, we ve seen this for coming. what do you put this down to ten? the fact that it s destined to be so hard for the home office to get a grip on the situation? i don t get it because other departments have been planning. other departments have been working on this, and preparing. we have worked with the foreign office. with other departments. we have been pressing the treasury and other departments to go faster with sanctions. but we are working to do this. it s the home office that has been so resistance. it tried to use the original visa system. if you don t remember, we had that awful moment when they said that they should come here and provide for seasonal agriculture or pick fruit. that s clearly not the answer. this is the result of having the tough border policy post breakfasts? i don t think this is about brexit? i think this is about not