A Manchester man has been sentenced after using a fake passport in an attempt to obtain a Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence and get work as a security operative
On Thursday 15 December 2022, Abdul-Semiu Adeniyi Badmos from Manchester was ordered by Manchester Crown Court to do 150 hours unpaid work within a 12-month period, plus five rehabilitation activity requirement days and to pay a victim surcharge. The sentencing follows his guilty plea on 8 December to using a forged document in a fraudulent attempt to gain an SIA licence.
On 6 July 2019 Badmos applied to the SIA for a door supervisor’s licence. He submitted a counterfeit passport with his application as proof of his identity.
SIA staff were suspicious of the passport and sent it to the National Document Fraud Unit for further analysis. The SIA’s suspicions were proved correct as it was indeed confirmed that the passport was a fake.
The SIA opened a criminal investigation and invited Badmos to an interview under caution on 03 October 2019. However, he failed to engage with them and the security regulator’s legal services, therefore they brought a prosecution against Badmos.
His Honour Judge Potter said:
Mark Chapman, one of the SIA’s criminal investigations managers, said:
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