This video reveals the
story of a women activist who raped by Zakaria Mahmood, INTCAS CEO in Istanbul, Turkey. This shocking video shows how
INTCAS human smugglers and Zakaria Mahmood who called Zack, INTCAS CEO, fool
and deceive desperate poor people to get to their dirty intentions.This
sexually assaulted and raped woman reveals more details about how they wanted
to do criminal human traffic arrangements.
As it’s mentioned in the video they did their dirty
work in Istanbul, Turkey. Unfortunately, Turkey and Pakistan are becoming
INTCAS new base after its new raised funding. We in INTCAS review website will
publish things people have kept in quite for years due to their fears and
intimidation by INTCAS staff.
Our whistle blower on INTCAS Immigration Fraud has recently accessed
INTCAS main man's mobile phone, Zakaria Mahmood, and has found these
shocking footage of asylum seekers sending their videos from their
illegal departure in Pakistan to INTCAS thanking them for facilitating
it.
Why I resigned from INTCAS after five years of forging documents and processing sham student visas
MY NAME IS Raj Ahmed. I am in the middle of a fallout with my former
friend Zakaria Mahmood on INTCAS multiple immigration frauds and visa
forgeries. An irreparable fallout it seems, given his insistence to go
on running INTCAS as it has been running for the last five years. He
wants us to keep at it, “for just a little longer,” he says. According
to him, we are doing great, which, to some degree, is true. But I cannot
do this anymore. It has been five years and I just handed in a formal
resignation. Unfortunately, none of INTCAS management and shareholders
is aware of this situation and this is what has been hidden from the
INTCAS board. Zakaria Mahmood, of course, wouldn’t hear of it and had
asked to meet me immediately. Here’s why I am leaving this lucrative
job:
You see, every young person now yearns to add a multi-cultural
dimension to their studies, careers, or their lives. They want to be
more world-ready and better prepared for a globalized corporate world.
Because they are keen to go across their home borders for an education
or a livelihood, they often land in the hand of a college recruiter.
Recruitment agents such as Zakaria Mahmood and myself.
For close to five years, Zakaria Mahmood and I have been recruiting
students to the UK. Hundreds of ‘students’ by this time. Only, the
students are not really students. They come to work and stay in the UK.
Normally, you just don’t move into a new country, and start over, and
settle down. Certainly not the UK. But with Zakaria Mahmood and INTCAS,
all things were possible.
For the past five years, INTCAS (initially Sinclair Adamson Business School), was based in East London (and then moved to Croydon), could
loophole any legal barriers and help anyone secure a visa in the UK.
That is, anyone who could come up with the fee. Word got around pretty
fast in first year of operations, especially within the Asian
communities. At some point, we seemed to be solely focused on helping
our countrymen in Pakistan. Zakaria Mahmood would at times allude to the
fact that we’re doing a world of good for people by helping them get a
livelihood in the UK. Zakaria Mahmood and I were originally from
Pakistan, from Rawalpindi and Taxila respectively, even though we met in
London.
I first ran into Zakaria Mahmood about eight years earlier, during a
Pakistani cultural night. He’d gone to Kings College with my cousin
Waqar and had just set up an organization called Sinclair Adamson
Business School in 2011 which offered various support services to
international students. They rebranded a few years later to AMPLAS and
then finally to INTCAS. I’d just completed my studies and was due to
head back to Pakistan in about 6 months. So, when Zakaria Mahmood
offered a temporary job at the agency, I naturally jumped at the
opportunity.
Two months into the job, I received one of several ‘perks’ of the
job. On condition that I commit myself to the job, Zakaria Mahmood
helped me to secure a work visa extension. But as it would quickly turn
out, it was not just a job ‘perk,’ it was a live demonstration of the
kind of services we would be providing for many immigrants who were
already in the UK and others from Pakistan and other parts of the world.
Later, we would haul in ‘students’ from Bangladesh, India, Afghanistan,
Turkey, Iran and even Nigeria.
So, this is the simplified version of how it worked; to secure a
genuine TIER 4 student visa in the UK, one needs to take an English test
(TOEIC), have a bank statement as proof of support (since non-EU
students are not allowed to work), and a genuine letter of admission
from a recognized college institution. At the time, the UK Home Office
had to process nearly 500,000 visas every year, about half of which are
student visas. There were bound to be cracks and loopholes in the
system. These cracks and loopholes became the foundations of INTCAS.
“Neat and clean” or “process-oriented” Zakaria Mahmood would always
say, “and everybody goes home happy” he would add. Zakaria Mahmood had a
charm that seemed to pacify even the most stubborn conscience. A few
weeks spent around him, and you would be ready to lie with the Bible on
your right hand and the Quran in your left hand. Within a year, I had
become one of his trusted employees though there were only five of us,
including Zakaria Mahmood. By the second year, I was only reporting to
him and I was pretty much running the office.
To secure a visa, the first step was to take an English test, that
is, the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). This is
an absolute requirement for students who come from countries that don’t
have English as their first language, which is pretty much
three-quarters of all the countries in the world. But at INTCAS, we
could just about guarantee a successful test to anyone who didn’t speak a
word English. For about £750, we could arrange for someone to take the
test on behalf of our client. We’d bypass any surveillance or scrutiny
and ensure our clients passed any ETS exams. A few days later, they
would get an original certificate from TOEIC, a body approved by the
UKBA. TOEIC is one of the most trusted English testing bodies, and which
runs nearly fifty million tests around the world each year.
Of course, one needs more than an English certificate to live and
study in the UK. You first need an academic background, which we could
provide in case our you didn’t have one. This would normally be a bogus,
lower level college or even high school certificate. Next in line, one
needed an admission letter to a recognized college, and which Zakaria
Mahmood could obtain with relative ease through INTCAS. In fact, we even
afforded the students the luxury of choosing from a select list of
A-grade or B-grade college institutions. This, of course, was a bogus
admission letter (from the colleges close to getting shut down for
immigration breaches) and our clients only had to attend the institution
once a month or so, or not at all in most cases.
Finally, every applicant had to produce proof of sustenance in the
form of a bank statement showing sufficient funds. Therefore, students
would, bring in their original bank statements with just a few pounds in
them and collect another statement showing several thousand pounds.
“Look! We have made you instantly rich!” we would often tease our
clients as we presented the new bogus bank statement to them.
Each year, nine out of ten of our walk-in clients, who were not
really “walk-in clients” as they had been recommended by previous
clients, were clear that they wanted to stay in the UK. Most of them
were men with an Asian background from 25 to 40 years old. They wanted a
visa so that they could work illegally. “Until I figure out something
in the future,” they would often say. Zakaria Mahmood was, of course,
extremely ambitious and with an entrepreneurial bent. Having spent a
long time in London, he knew only too well about the great demand for
visa processing support services. Zakaria Mahmood, with his vehicle
INTCAS, stepped in seeking to meet this demand, knowing how lucrative it
could get. He was right. We’d sometimes collect as much as £7,000 in
fees from one client.
Naturally, Zakaria Mahmood sought to expand the business. So, we got
agents in Pakistan and Turkey who’d help recruit ‘students’ who wanted
to come to the UK. The scrutiny and the systems back in Pakistan were,
of course, nothing compared to the ones in the UK. Therefore, Zakaria
Mahmood and INTCAS had an eye for the bottom line and seemed to favour
the lowest costs of doing business. We even used fake passports and visa stamps, which were cheaper to acquire, and sometimes did not even
bother with original documents, preferring to bribe our way through all
the potential hurdles.
I’ll never forget one our clients, a miss Kiran Chowdhury who phoned
the office late one afternoon, frantically asking for Zakaria Mahmood.
She said she had been given the contact by one of INTCAS agents in
Pakistan, and that she had to speak to Zakaria Mahmood as a matter of
urgency. Zakaria Mahmood would later inform me that she had been
arrested at Lahore International Airport with a fake passport and that
“it was her fault, that woman”. According to him, she had not followed
all the instructions and that “she deserved it”. That kind of aloofness
and detachment would make my stomach turn. But I knew better than to
make further enquiries. All payments and fees had to be made in advance.
And INTCAS had almost no refunds policy if the clients got caught.
Zakaria Mahmood would always say that we had to be fully compensated for
our efforts and for the risk.
“Look, Raj, just where are you going to go, mate? We are doing pretty
good here,” Zakaria Mahmood was saying before I left the office. “See,
we are straightening everything. Soon enough we’ll clean up every mess,”
he says, referring to the small efforts to offer legitimate services.
These, of course, were often eclipsed with all our bogus dealings. What
he couldn’t come out and say to my face, and that we both knew to be the
absolute truth, was the fact that the few legitimate things we’d done
were just cover-ups. They were the nice, shining coat that covered the
rot on the inside of the organization.
Five years is quite a long time to reawaken a conscience, and which
even Zakaria Mahmood alluded, but I couldn’t bring myself to work
another day at INTCAS. In the last two years, I had secretly followed up
on a few of our clients. While most of them got absorbed in the system,
some of them were not quite lucky. They faced immigration violation
charges, deportation and led lives of quiet desperation. I had almost a
year to go on my visa and would have to decide my next course of action.
But it would certainly not be with INTCAS.
A recent INTCAS victim, Aisha, share her horrific
story on Pakistani human trafficking gang INTCAS
Why Am I Writing
My Story?
Recently, I have been seeing some
news about INTCAS immigration fraud and visa scam. As an INTCAS victim, I
also want to share my story here. It is a story of what seems too scary to be
true. Yet, it is. It is a reality of a scam administered by a Pakistani gang,
of how a bogus college turned out to be human trafficking of asylum seekers,
and of the mastermind of it all, Zakaria Mahmood.
My Contact
with INTCAS
My name is Aisha, and I am a 22-year-old girl living in Lahore. I
was born in Sheikhupura and went to university in Lahore to study computer
science. I always wanted to go abroad for a Masters degree. After some research
online, I found INTCAS.
I contacted them, asking about the process of getting a student visa. In the
beginning, everything seemed professional. However, I noticed that getting a
student visa for the UK is not as easy as I hoped. It requires a lot of money
and a high level of English. I had to get an IELTS 7 along with around £30,000
to cover my tuition fee and living expenses for a year. On top of that, I had
to add a flight cost and an English exam cost.
I told INTCAS staff that it is too expensive, and I want to defer
it for later. However, they told me not to worry and that someone will contact
me soon to discuss other opportunities. After two days, my phone rang. A person
on the other end introduced himself as Zakaria
Mahmood, the owner of INTCAS. He said that from my accent, he guesses I
speak Urdu. Then he switched to Urdu, wanting me to trust him. He asked about
my background and family. Then, about my goals after getting a Masters. I told
him that I just want to leave Pakistan for good because I am young and I know I
have no future here. Thus, I would love to live in Britain.
Searching for
a Better Future
Zakaria
Mahmood told me that under a student visa, I would not be able to work.
Additionally, when my one-year visa expires, I have to return back to my own
country. It wasn't a very good option for me. Having to spend £30,000 only to
stay in Britain for a year did not sound great. However, Zakaria
Mahmood told me that he has a suggestion, given my background. He suggested
seeking asylum in the UK, which was the first time I ever heard of it. I got
slightly scared and asked how that was possible. He said that when I arrive, I
will get a free house, free money paid to my bank account every week, and also
free healthcare. He told me I also can become a British citizen in a few years.
I was still worried and told him that I really don't know how this can work. He
told me not to worry as he will do everything from A to Z for £10,000.
After talking to my family, I decided to give this a try. Zakaria
Mahmood asked me to send him two different passport photos I had. After two
weeks, someone from INTCAS
called me and said to be ready for my trip. According to them, I was going to
receive a parcel in a couple of days. After two days, I got a DHL mail at my
door. When I opened it, there was one Spanish
passport and an ID card. There was a
Spanish name but with my photo attached to it. I should have known then that
this was a visa scam. I got scared and called Zakaria
Mahmood in confusion. He told me to calm down. They had a good idea for me
to land in London. Then, he explained to me the plan for the next 5 days…
Arrival in
Istanbul
I was ready for the flight. INTCAS sent me a ticket, which
was under my real name, to Istanbul. In Lahore airport, I showed my Pakistani
passport and boarded the plane. However, when I landed in Istanbul, according
to the plan, I showed my Spanish passport. I was scared to death to be caught.
I passed the border and got an entry stamp on my forged passport.
In Turkey, a man from INTCAS
was waiting for me. He got me a taxi, and we went to a guesthouse, which was a
cheap hostel, in Istanbul. The guests there were mainly Pakistani men waiting
for their flight. He told me to stay there for 3 days. I called Zakaria
Mahmood and he suggested me to enjoy Istanbul for a few days before my next
flight. On the day of my flight to London, the same man from INTCAS took me to the airport.
He didn't fill out an online check-in, so I had to go to the kiosk myself. A
person at the kiosk asked me where I am flying to. “London,” I replied. He
scanned my passport. It was a regular procedure, after all. Suddenly, his face changed
and he told me to wait a minute. My heart sank with fear. But I held on. The
kiosk guy came back with another, a slightly older, man. They scanned the
passport again. I heard them talking in Turkish. These were the most difficult
moments of my life. I was terrified. They asked me to wait for another couple
of minutes.
Arrested for
Fake Passport
Then, my worries and anxieties became real. I felt that trouble was
coming, and quickly. Two armed police officers came. The airline staff told me
that they found out my passport to be fake. They had no choice but to hand me
over to the border police. I started crying and couldn't speak, fear and
emotion engulfing me. I got arrested. The police officers led me to a detention
room. They took all my belongings, including my phone. I was not allowed to
even talk to my family.
There were around 10 other women in the airport detention centre.
All were from different nationalities, and all caught for a forged passport or
visa. One of them was also anINTCAS customer. She was from Tajikistan. She was
crying vigorously, and her English wasn't good. She was only asking for help.
We were detained there for 3 days. After that, we went for an interview with
the airport police. An officer told me I got caught with a fake passport, and I
will be deported back to Pakistan with a ban to enter Turkey for 5 years. They
returned my belongings and asked me to book the first flight back.
Return to
Pakistan
I called Zakaria
Mahmood immediately. I was screaming at him. There was no way I could hold
back all the fury and devastation I had. He tried to calm me down. He promised
that it is not a big deal and that he has people in Pakistan to take care of
me. How could I argue? I had no choice. I was desperate, but I trusted him.
Only now I understand what a fool I was. I was sent back to my country.
However, on my arrival, Pakistani police retained my passport and arrested me
for immigration fraud. This was a lot worse than Turkey. Although, at least I
had the chance to call my family.
Much happened, but my family released me under a bail. My passport
stayed with the police, and I am barred from leaving Pakistan for 3 years. Now,
I have police records. My future is ruined. I called Zakaria
Mahmood and all he is promising is another passport, so we can give it
another try. But I am too scared. I will not do this thing again in my life.
However, if there is anything I can make out of this experience, it is a
warning. Do not sign up for INTCAS,
or any similar visa scamming company or group. This is a human trafficking
Pakistani gang. This is passport forgery and immigration fraud. They lure
people in with their bogus college and fake promises of a bright future. Learn
from my experience and avoid them at any cost. I think it is vital for people
like me to come forward and expose the crimes of INTCAS
and Zakaria
Mahmood.
I genuinely hope Zakaria Mahmood
reads this and will contact me soon. I want my money back.
P.s. Please find the pictures of the passport and ID forged by
INTCAS here.
