The Reasons Our Team Chose to Go Undercover to Uncover Crime in the Kurdish Community

Two Kurdish men agreed to operate secretly to uncover a organization behind unlawful High Street establishments because the criminals are causing harm the reputation of Kurds in the UK, they state.

The pair, who we are calling Ali and Saman, are Kurdish-origin reporters who have both lived lawfully in the United Kingdom for many years.

Investigators uncovered that a Kurdish illegal enterprise was running mini-marts, barbershops and vehicle cleaning services the length of the UK, and aimed to learn more about how it worked and who was involved.

Prepared with hidden cameras, Saman and Ali presented themselves as Kurdish-origin asylum seekers with no authorization to work, seeking to purchase and run a small shop from which to distribute contraband tobacco products and vapes.

They were successful to discover how straightforward it is for an individual in these circumstances to set up and manage a commercial operation on the main street in full view. The individuals involved, we learned, compensate Kurds who have UK residency to legally establish the businesses in their names, assisting to mislead the authorities.

Saman and Ali also managed to discreetly document one of those at the core of the operation, who claimed that he could erase government sanctions of up to sixty thousand pounds encountered those using unauthorized employees.

"Personally wanted to participate in revealing these illegal practices [...] to say that they don't speak for our community," states Saman, a ex- refugee applicant personally. Saman came to the country without authorization, having fled the Kurdish region - a region that covers the borders of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria but which is not officially recognized as a country - because his well-being was at danger.

The journalists recognize that tensions over illegal immigration are significant in the United Kingdom and state they have both been anxious that the inquiry could worsen hostilities.

But the other reporter states that the unauthorized employment "damages the whole Kurdish community" and he believes compelled to "reveal it [the criminal network] out into broad daylight".

Furthermore, the journalist says he was anxious the publication could be exploited by the far-right.

He explains this particularly struck him when he discovered that radical right campaigner a prominent activist's Unite the Kingdom rally was occurring in the capital on one of the weekends he was working covertly. Banners and banners could be observed at the gathering, reading "we want our nation back".

Both journalists have both been monitoring social media reaction to the inquiry from within the Kurdish community and say it has caused significant anger for some. One Facebook comment they found read: "In what way can we locate and find [the undercover reporters] to kill them like dogs!"

A different demanded their families in the Kurdish region to be attacked.

They have also encountered accusations that they were informants for the British government, and betrayers to other Kurdish people. "Both of us are not spies, and we have no aim of harming the Kurdish-origin community," one reporter states. "Our aim is to expose those who have damaged its standing. We are honored of our Kurdish heritage and extremely troubled about the behavior of such individuals."

The majority of those applying for refugee status claim they are escaping political discrimination, according to an expert from the a charitable organization, a organization that supports asylum seekers and refugee applicants in the United Kingdom.

This was the case for our covert journalist one investigator, who, when he first came to the UK, faced difficulties for many years. He states he had to live on under £20 a per week while his asylum claim was processed.

Asylum seekers now receive approximately £49 a per week - or £9.95 if they are in housing which offers meals, according to government policies.

"Practically saying, this is not adequate to support a respectable life," says the expert from the RWCA.

Because asylum seekers are generally prevented from employment, he feels numerous are susceptible to being taken advantage of and are essentially "compelled to work in the unofficial market for as low as three pounds per hourly rate".

A spokesperson for the Home Office stated: "The government do not apologize for refusing to grant refugee applicants the authorization to work - doing so would create an motivation for people to come to the UK without authorization."

Refugee applications can require multiple years to be processed with nearly a third taking more than 12 months, according to government data from the end of March this current year.

The reporter says working illegally in a car wash, hair salon or convenience store would have been quite easy to do, but he informed us he would never have engaged in that.

However, he says that those he met employed in illegal mini-marts during his investigation seemed "disoriented", notably those whose refugee application has been denied and who were in the appeal stage.

"They expended their entire money to come to the UK, they had their asylum refused and now they've sacrificed all they had."

Ali acknowledges that these individuals seemed desperate.

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