Two men and a woman have been jailed after possessing false and stolen passports and other identity documents - and intending to use them for fraudulent purposes.
Abbey Wood resident Muhammed Saleem, 28, was jailed for eight years for his part in the scam on Friday (October 9), following a trial at Southwark Crown Court.
Tayyab Ahmed Al-Riaz, 34, and Valentina Miu, 31, were also jailed on Friday for eight and four years respectively - after a large quantity of stolen and counterfeit documents were found at their East Ham home.
The three were convicted of a total of ten counts of fraud and false identity documents offences on Thursday.
Saleem was arrested on Sunday, December 6 last year, after police linked him to a separate case where two men were stopped by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) at Dover a week earlier.
He was found to be in possession of false identity documents.
Met Police officers raided Saleems's home, where they found letters addressed to "Mohammed Salim" at an East Ham address, which later turned out to be Al-Riaz and Miu's home.
Officer attended the East Ham address, where they found several stolen passports, travel and identity documents, counterfeit passport pages, holographic patches and laminate passport coverings and counterfeit UK residence permits.
Two memory sticks were also found, containing material designed to assist in the production of false identity documents.
As well as the false identity documents and material, officers discovered a number of lost or stolen bank cards and two 'Chip and Pin' readers.
Items were found in various rooms inside the house, some in locked filing cabinets and others inside jacket pockets or rucksacks.
All three were arrested on December 6 last year, and were charged on December 8 with various offences relating to possessing counterfeit identity documents, material and apparatus useful in the making of false identity documents.
Detectives also identified a bank account held by Miu, into which £10,000 cash that had been fraudulently obtained had been paid into the account with more than £170,000 laundered through that account alone.
The money was recovered by the bank and Miu was further charged with money laundering.
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