LONDON: Members of a gang, which ran a "
sham wedding gang" and got at least 13 South Asian men married to Lithuanian women to give the men the right to live and work in the UK, were jailed on Wednesday.
The gang, led by Sainsbury's workers Ayaz Khan, 32, from Pakistan, and Jurgita Pavlovskyte, 25, from Lithuania, got 13 men - 11 from Pakistan, one from India and one from Bangladesh - married to Lithuanian women with EU's citizenship.
The pair, with Muhammad Saqlain, 32, and Diana Stankevic, 26, were convicted of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration. Ringleader Khan was jailed for six years and Pavlovskyte, 37-weeks-pregnant, was jailed for five years. Saqlain and Stankevic were jailed for three years. Judge Poulet said she was convinced the gang made at least £500,000 but in reality it was "a great deal more".
