READING, Berkshire—A British gang supplied fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to enable drug traffickers, murderers, and other fugitives to cross borders without being noticed, a court has been told.
Six people went on trial at Reading Crown Court in England on Wednesday after a National Crime Agency investigation into “an organised crime group” which provided passports that were “highly valuable” among the criminal fraternity.
Prosecutor Tom Nicholson said the gang provided a number of UK and later Latvian passports, at a cost of up to £25,000 each, which enabled fugitives from justice and international drugs and gun traffickers to cross borders and book into hotels without being flagged up to law enforcement….