http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264112/Members-international-sham-marriage-gang-sent-Czech-women-Pakistan-wed-immigrants-bound-UK-jailed.html Jailed: International sham marriage gang which sent Czech women to Pakistan to wed immigrants bound for the UK

Talib Hussain, 42, given six years for running sham marriage ring
His ex-wife Rahina Zaman, who helped him, jailed for two-and-a-half years
Other gang members jailed for total of 15 years by Judge Rosalind Coe QC
She says Hussain's suburban semi in Rotherham was scam 'engine room'
Scam 'struck at the heart of British immigration system', judge said

By Sarah Johnson and Harriet Arkell

PUBLISHED: 20:25 GMT, 17 January 2013 | UPDATED: 20:27 GMT, 18 January 2013

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A father-of-five who ran a massive international sham marriage operation from his suburban family home has been jailed for six years.

Immigrant Talib Hussain, 42, was the ring-leader of a gang that flew Eastern European women to Islamabad for bogus weddings with Pakistani men, who could then apply to live in the UK under European open borders laws.

The scam - which Hussain orchestrated with the help of his ex-wife from his home in Rotherham, South Yorkshire - 'struck at the heart of the British immigration system', said a judge, as she sentenced 17 members of the gang for a combined total of more than 27 years at Sheffield Crown Court.

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