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London, August 13
A college run by a Pakistani citizen in Manchester is under investigation following reports that it created a fraudulent gateway to British citizenship by selling English language certificates to hundreds of Asian immigrants, including those from India.
The cash-for-qualifications investigation was launched after The Times discovered that recent students of Oxford College of Management Sciences appeared to have little or no knowledge of what, when and where they had studied to gain their certificates.
The man believed to have been running the college, Rizwan Ahmed Kiyani, is a 38-year-old Pakistani who appears to have spent much of the past seven years posing as a student while working in a series of full-time jobs, the report said.
Kiyani has twice been detained by British immigration authorities and has been due for deportation since May 2008, yet remains free and is applying for indefinite leave to remain in the country.
His business partner Mohamed Amer, another Pakistani citizen and a director of the college, is living in the UK under one identity but uses another name, Amer Masood Mir, on his Pakistani passport to make regular trips to his home city of Rawalpindi.
He apparently has no legal right to be in the UK, The Times report said.
A college run by a Pakistani citizen in Manchester is under investigation following reports that it created a fraudulent gateway to British citizenship by selling English language certificates to hundreds of Asian immigrants, including those from India.
The cash-for-qualifications investigation was launched after The Times discovered that recent students of Oxford College of Management Sciences appeared to have little or no knowledge of what, when and where they had studied to gain their certificates.
The man believed to have been running the college, Rizwan Ahmed Kiyani, is a 38-year-old Pakistani who appears to have spent much of the past seven years posing as a student while working in a series of full-time jobs, the report said.
Kiyani has twice been detained by British immigration authorities and has been due for deportation since May 2008, yet remains free and is applying for indefinite leave to remain in the country.
His business partner Mohamed Amer, another Pakistani citizen and a director of the college, is living in the UK under one identity but uses another name, Amer Masood Mir, on his Pakistani passport to make regular trips to his home city of Rawalpindi.
He apparently has no legal right to be in the UK, The Times report said.
