The picture above shows the
dramatic moment home office investigators interrupted and stopped a sham
marriage between 27-year-old Nigerian, Chinedu Amadi and Hungarian national,
38-year-old Szilvia Basco-Porkolab, just minutes before the ‘bride’ and ‘groom’
exchanged their vows.
Nigerian Chinedu Amadi arrived at
Leicester Registry Office to marry a complete stranger - who donned a
traditional white wedding gown for the occasion. But known to them, Home Office
investigators who were tipped off by a suspicious registrar were waiting in a side room for the pair to arrive.
Amadi paid £5,000 to an unknown
'fixer' to arrange the bogus wedding with an EU national to allow him to stay
in the UK. After their arrest, investigators discovered Basco-Porkolab was
involved in an earlier sham marriage to another Nigerian, Ikechukwu Egbe, at
Greta Green in May 2011. Meehn, this lady is a serial wifey o, lol.
Continue...
Chinedu Amadi, 27, pictured left,
his 'bride' Szilvia Basco-Porkolab, pictured right
suspicion that they were
entering into a sham marriage started when Amadi and Durgos, the lady Amadi was
initially supposed to marry, went to the Leicester Registry Office to give
their notice of intention to marry, on October 21. They met the deputy
superintendent registrar for Leicester, Debra Webster who recognised Durgos as
someone she knew as Rita Durgos, a Hungarian who had acted as an interpreter
for more than one marriage.
Mrs Webster became suspicious as
to whether Durgos and Amadi were going to enter a genuine marriage. Durgos
struggled to pronounce the first name of Amadi and he struggled to remember his
address. According to her, they were being excessively affectionate and she got
the impression they were trying too hard to demonstrate they were a couple.
On 19th January, the
day they were scheduled to get married, a woman claiming to be Rubin Durgos
turned up but Mrs Webster did not recognise her . Amadi was an hour late and
missed the ceremony, so they postponed it to 2pm on February 14. By then Mrs
Webster had alerted the authorities.
When arrested in a wedding dress,
the ‘bride-to-be’ initially told officers she was attending as a witness.
Basco-Porkolab was jailed for 34
months, while Amadi was jailed for 20 months. Egbe, 34, of Narborough Road,
Leicester, was convicted of one offence of conspiracy, and jailed for 30 months
and a fourth person, Rubin Durgos 39, admitted conspiracy, in the intended sham
marriage of Amadi. She was to be the bride, before Basco-Porkolab stepped in at
the last minute.All the defendants are likely to be deported after their
sentences.
Co-conspirators: Ikechukwu Egbe,
33, pictured left, Rubin Durgos, 39, pictured right,
No comments:
Post a Comment
PLEASE DROP YOUR COMMENTS