The Reasons Our Team Went Covert to Reveal Criminal Activity in the Kurdish Population

Two Kurdish-background individuals agreed to work covertly to uncover a organization behind illegal main street businesses because the wrongdoers are causing harm the reputation of Kurds in the Britain, they explain.

The two, who we are referring to as Saman and Ali, are Kurdish-origin investigators who have both lived lawfully in the UK for a long time.

Investigators discovered that a Kurdish-linked illegal enterprise was managing mini-marts, hair salons and vehicle cleaning services across Britain, and aimed to learn more about how it operated and who was taking part.

Armed with covert cameras, Ali and Saman presented themselves as Kurdish-origin asylum seekers with no authorization to be employed, looking to acquire and run a small shop from which to sell contraband cigarettes and vapes.

The investigators were successful to discover how simple it is for someone in these circumstances to set up and run a commercial operation on the commercial area in plain sight. Those involved, we discovered, pay Kurdish individuals who have British citizenship to register the enterprises in their names, enabling to deceive the government agencies.

Ali and Saman also succeeded to discreetly record one of those at the heart of the network, who claimed that he could remove official penalties of up to £60k encountered those hiring unauthorized laborers.

"Personally aimed to contribute in exposing these unlawful practices [...] to declare that they don't characterize our community," says Saman, a ex- refugee applicant himself. Saman came to the country illegally, having escaped from Kurdistan - a territory that spans the borders of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria but which is not globally acknowledged as a nation - because his well-being was at danger.

The investigators acknowledge that conflicts over unauthorized migration are significant in the UK and say they have both been worried that the inquiry could worsen conflicts.

But Ali explains that the unauthorized labor "harms the whole Kurdish-origin community" and he feels obligated to "expose it [the criminal network] out into the open".

Separately, the journalist explains he was worried the coverage could be used by the radical right.

He says this especially affected him when he discovered that far-right campaigner a prominent activist's Unite the Kingdom march was happening in London on one of the weekends he was working secretly. Banners and flags could be spotted at the protest, reading "we demand our country returned".

The reporters have both been tracking online feedback to the inquiry from within the Kurdish-origin population and say it has caused strong frustration for certain individuals. One social media comment they spotted said: "In what way can we identify and locate [the undercover reporters] to harm them like animals!"

Another urged their relatives in the Kurdish region to be slaughtered.

They have also read allegations that they were spies for the British government, and betrayers to other Kurdish people. "We are not informants, and we have no intention of damaging the Kurdish-origin population," one reporter states. "Our aim is to reveal those who have damaged its reputation. Both journalists are proud of our Kurdish-origin heritage and profoundly worried about the behavior of such people."

Most of those applying for asylum claim they are fleeing politically motivated discrimination, according to an expert from the a charitable organization, a charity that helps asylum seekers and refugee applicants in the UK.

This was the scenario for our undercover reporter one investigator, who, when he first arrived to the UK, struggled for years. He explains he had to survive on less than £20 a per week while his asylum claim was considered.

Refugee applicants now are provided approximately forty-nine pounds a week - or £9.95 if they are in shelter which offers food, according to government policies.

"Realistically stating, this isn't sufficient to sustain a respectable existence," states the expert from the RWCA.

Because asylum seekers are mostly restricted from employment, he feels a significant number are open to being taken advantage of and are essentially "obligated to labor in the unofficial economy for as little as £3 per hourly rate".

A spokesperson for the authorities stated: "The government make no apology for denying asylum seekers the right to be employed - doing so would generate an reason for people to travel to the UK without authorization."

Refugee applications can require multiple years to be resolved with approximately a third taking more than one year, according to government data from the spring this year.

Saman explains working illegally in a vehicle cleaning service, barbershop or mini-mart would have been very simple to accomplish, but he informed us he would not have participated in that.

However, he says that those he encountered laboring in unauthorized convenience stores during his research seemed "lost", notably those whose refugee application has been denied and who were in the appeal stage.

"These individuals used their entire money to come to the United Kingdom, they had their asylum refused and now they've lost their entire investment."

The other reporter agrees that these individuals seemed hopeless.

"When [they] say you're forbidden to be employed - but also [you]