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03/03/02 - Wed this sexy blonde
and Pick up £5,000
BY MAZHER MAHMOOD
INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR
News of the World
A MAFIA boss this week arranged my illegal wedding to
a Russian call girl so she can stay in Britain. In return
I get £5,000 and all the kinky sex I can manage.
It is the tip of a huge racket using rented British
grooms to sidestep Home Secretary David Blunkett's new
clampdown on sham marriages.
My 'fiancee', who fully expects to be my wife in the
next few days, is Alona Samoluka. That's her at the
top of this page, writhing naked on black satin in a
picture from her internet site. Her speciality is corporal
punishment. To be honest, I'm not too bothered if she
gets slap-happy on honeymoon because I won't be there.
I'll be too busy preparing a dossier on Alona and her
Russian Mafia masters. Bribe I was alerted to the scam
by an ex-con named Thomas Halloran (aka Paul O'Mahoney
Bernards older brother) who married a 28-year old Stringfellow's
lapdancer called Olena Melnyk at Newham register office
in London.
Little realising I worked for the News of the World
he let slip: "I was really hard up so I went for
it. I got paid £3,000 in cash. "I know the
gang arranged bogus marriages for at least six of her
friends with British lads."
I persuaded Halloran that I could do with the money
too, so he took me to Gallia Textiles, a haberdashery
shop in east London's Whitechapel. It is a front for
the illegal marriage scam. Simon Kogan and his partner
Antonio Russo real name Antonov arrange weddings for
a stream of Eastern bloc girls who arrive in Britain
on tourist or student visas.
Kogan, a fat bald man with a goatee beard, asked me:
"Do you want to make some money? Which passport
do you have? Are you married?" He explained that
the marriages would take place in Russia or Latvia where
formalities are more lax and officials are easily bribed.
"You get £5,000 half on the wedding day with
an all expenses-paid holiday, tickets, hotels, everything,"
he said.
"You have to marry the girl in Russia and bring
her back as your wife. You have a wedding there, get
her a visa as your wife and you come back with the girl."
Russo added: "Once you're back in Britain you go
to a solicitor with your new wife and all your documents
are sent to the Home Office.
Then after two or three weeks you get your documents
back and as soon as she gets a one-year visa you get
the rest of your money. And every time she needs you
to go to see solicitors or the Home Office she'll pay
you £80 as a bonus. The more times she needs you,
the more money you get." Kogan, who lives in Ilford,
Essex, and drives a turbo-charged Mercedes, chipped
in: "After one and a half years you can get divorced.
We pay for that as well. Then you can marry another
one and make even more money." I left them a phone
number and the following day Kogan rang to tell me I
had a fiancee! Stunning blonde Alona arrived at Gallia
Textiles in a minicab.
She was wearing a fur coat over a blouse that struggled
heroically against the overwhelming odds of her 36DD
boobs. Kogan spoke to her in Russian before turning
to me. "This is your wife!" he announced with
a huge grin.
Alona, 21, spelled out the deal: "I will pay you
£5,000 to marry me in Latvia," she purred.
"It'll take two weeks, but you will have a nice
holiday and I will pay for everything." It was
crystal clear that my 'nice holiday' would also include
the full range of deviant sex that Alona practises on
clients.
Visa She works in London as a £250-an-hour call
girl and calls herself 'Victoria'. Alona told me: "We
need to know about each other. We have to make a story
about how we met. Then we can talk in the interview
for the visa when we get back."
The following day Mafia man Russo summoned another undercover
reporter, introduced by me, to his drapery shop. "I
have a girl for you to marry," he said. "Come
and meet her." Russo bundled our reporter into
Kogan's Mercedes and drove to Liverpool Street station
where he introduced a blonde Russian girl called Elaina.
The gang have been organising marriages for the last
three years. They currently organise at least three
bogus marriages a week with brides paying the Mafia
about £7,000 a time. But Alona, already in Latvia
awaiting her 'groom', must do without me. |
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