A man has been jailed for six months for providing bogus immigration advice.
Wisdom Abordo, 36, of Green Street, Enfield, traded for a year giving unqualified information during 2014 as Alpha Legal Services, in East London.
Abordo was regulated by the Immigration Services Commissions in January 2014 but was found incompetent.
Upon sentencing, District Judge Mrs Coleman said “These are extremely serious offences. You set up a business to provide immigration advice when you were not qualified or competent to do so. The degree of culpability is high, as is the harm you have caused. You owe a considerable amount of money to individuals and have undermined the immigration system.”
Deputy Immigration Services Commissioner, Ian Leigh, added: "Illegally providing immigration advice is a serious offence, and the sentence handed down today reflects this. Peddling illegal immigration advice ruins people's lives."
Abordo was also ordered to pay £1,300 in compensation to two victims at Westminster Magistrates Court.
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