Two crime bosses who supplied fraudulent passports to the UK's most wanted fugitive Michael Moogan have been convicted after a five year probe.
Anthony Beard, 61, and Christopher Zietek, 67, were caught after a covert surveillance operation by the National Crime Agency (NCA) found they had provided fraudulently-obtained genuine passports (FOGs) to organised criminals. Customers paid between £5-15,000 for the highly sought after documents which were issued authentically but applied for using false information.
The passports were supplied to a number of offenders including former UK's most wanted fugitive Michael Moogan. The 37-year-old drug trafficker, branded a "Premier League" cocaine kingpin, spent eight years on the run after getting wind the NCA were seeking his arrest. Moogan was collared in Dubai in 2021 and jailed last week to 12 years at Manchester Crown Court.
