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Unqualified court interpreter sentenced after working on 140 cases
Detective Andy Cope, from the City of London Police’s fraud team, said Mirwais Patang showed 'blind greed'
‘Extremely poor’: Translator conned his way into court role based on bogus qualifications
An interpreter with “extremely poor” translation skills conned his way into a job in London’s courts and tribunals on the basis of forged qualifications, a court heard.
Fake court interpreter earned £65,500 from 140 cases including grooming gang trial
Mirwais Patang forged qualifications and stole a legitimate interpreter’s identity
Translation work for foreign crime suspects costs UK £450,000 a week
Ministry of Justice spent £23.4 million in just over a year, much of it on Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian speakers
