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29/05/2013

Registrar Catches Sham Marriage Couple

A couple have been jailed for their part in a sham marriage after a registrar caught the bride-to-be holding hands with her real boyfriend.

According to the BBC, Svetlana Kokenyova, 20, who was to be paid £3k, and Ali Ansar, 25, had gone to a register office at Llandudno to give notice of their wedding.

However, the would-be bride was later seen with her real partner Vladimir Bango in the car park.

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Caernarfon Crown Court heard when the wedding party returned to the register office, the bride and groom both arriving more than 40 minutes late, the Border Agency was waiting for them.

The prosecution said the aim was to enable Ansar, a student in the country illegally, to remain in Britain.

The trio admitted conspiring to facilitate a breach of immigration law. Ansar was jailed for 14 months, Bango 12 months and Kokenyova 10 months.

Three other men, Parvez Tabassam, 50, Pervaiz Iqbal, 41, and Abip Aslam, 37, who organised the marriage were jailed for between 16 months and 21 months after admitting the same offence.

(JP/IT)

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"A couple have been jailed for their part in a sham marriage after a registrar caught the bride-to-be holding hands with her real boyfriend."