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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Adam Everett

Fraudster took driving tests for cash and new clothes

A fraudster attempted to take driving theory tests while pretending to be other men after being promised cash and clothes.

Thanh Nguyen was recruited to take part in the scam after fleeing loan sharks, who had trafficked him to the UK from Vietnam in order to work in a drugs farm.

Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Tuesday, that the 45-year-old sat a driving theory test at the DVSA test centre on Duke Street in Liverpool city centre on November 25 last year. While Nguyen passed the exam, staff became suspicious that he was not the person seen in the photograph on the provisional licence he had presented to them.

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