The Rise and Fall of the Crooked Passport King: Secrets Exposed

These are the surprising faces of three geezers that gangland’s elite relied on to keep them safe — by getting genuine passports bearing the photos of fugitive villains in the names of others, letting them travel the world doing dirty deeds and avoiding arrest. Let me tell you about it. The Mob Reporter here with the true story of the rise and fall of a criminal enterprise in Britain with a sharply bureaucratic edge; old-timer specialists supplying the gold standard in bogus ID — fraudulently-obtained genuine passports. ** PLEASE TAP THE THANKS BUTTON TO LEAVE ME A TIP. SHARE A LINK, LIKE, COMMENT AND SUBSCRIBE. JOIN ME ON PATREON! Meet Anthony Beard, 61, from Sydenham, London. He’s the crooked passport brains of the organization. Long ago, Beard figured out a sneaky way to get a real passport legitimately issued for almost anyone, in the name of a real, clean person but with the photo of someone else, who definitely isn’t so clean. Meet Christopher Zietek, 67, of London. He was the black market salesman, the broker between Beard and the gangsters. He’s the hardman of this lot, with street cred and underworld contacts. Under his former name of Christopher McCormack, he was an enforcer in one of London’s biggest crime groups, known as the Adams Family. Zietek’s association with the Adams Family was a powerful calling card in Europe’s underworld. But he needed a henchman. Meet Alan Thompson, 72, of Sutton, Surrey. He was Zietek’s lackey, or henchman, because what’s the point of being all gangster if you don’t have a henchman? Thompson was his chauffeur, driving him about and delivering passports. It’s a mouthful, but fraudulently obtained genuine passports are simply authentic passports, issued by a government when the passport office is duped by false information. They look and feel legit because they are legit. What kind of clients were they servicing? One of the world’s most wanted for one. Irish crime boss Christy Kinahan, the alleged patriarch of the Kinahan cartel and father of Daniel Kinahan, Other customers included Christopher Hughes, Barry Gillespie, Paul Scott, Michael Moogan, Jamie Acourt, Jordan Owens, Jamie “Iceman” Stevenson, Richard Burdett, James White, and others. More than 100 passports were sold. The scheme was discovered in 2017 and Britain’s National Crime Agency launched a significant covert operation. Watch the video to find out what happened. CREDITS: Music is “Rains Of Meghalaya” by Hanu Dixit // “It Was a Time” by TrackTribe // “Future Proof” by South London HiFi London street and traffic videos by George Morina at Pexels, Man with UK passport in bag video by Taryn Elliott, Multi passport video, Prisoner jailed video by Ron Lach, Woman at airport video by Taryn Elliott, Airplane landing video by egamiFX Studio, Passport in hand photo by Ethan Wilkinson, all at Pexels; Man at airport check-in video, Flipping through passport video are both by Videvo; Martin Kok video from Opsporing Verzocht: ; New UK passport video from UK government; British passport photo by Tylessa - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, ~ The Mob Reporter is a professional journalist bringing you real-life mob, police and true crime news, investigative journalism and educational videos. ~ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE: ~ Please subscribe to my other channels: • Crime Watch: • Crime in Italy: ~ To read my written journalism: Please like, share, comment and subscribe. Thanks for watching! -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: “Genius jewel heist wrecked by sloppy mistakes“: -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-