Illegal immigrant Vladimir Buchak, 34, a Ukranaian national, remains in Britain and walking the streets despite having received a four year prison sentence in 2010 for organising hundreds of fake weddings.
Buchak, who had lived in the UK for several years before being jailed, was a part of an organised marriage scam which paid eastern Europeans up to £3,000 to marry Africans, mainly men from Nigeria.
The sham marriage fixers are believed to have conducted at least 360 marriages during a 4 year period in order to bypass immigration law.
You do the maths, there was a lot of money involved if they could afford to pay anywhere in the region of £3,000 to even a small amount of the 360 east Europeans.
Also jailed at the same time as Buchak were Reverend Alex Brown and solicitor Michael Adelasoye, who both also received 4 years.
Buchak was due to be deported upon his release from prison, and was sent to an immigration removal centre pending removal from the country - but was instead freed on bail.
The UK Borders Agency had opposed his bail, but an immigration judge decided otherwise.
"An immigration judge will grant bail where there is no sufficiently good reason to detain a person and lesser measures can provide adequate alternative means of control" said a spokesman for the judiciary.
We can think of more than one sufficiently good reason, in fact 360 of them in the form of all those fake marriages he or his organisation were involved with, and all of the added illegal immigrants that brought into Britain.
No wonder Buchak looked like he was smirking when filmed by the BBC recently, there's much about modern Britain for criminals and illegals to smirk about.
Illegal immigrant Vladimir Buchak, 34, a Ukranaian national, remains in Britain and walking the streets despite having received a four year prison sentence in 2010 for organising hundreds of fake weddings.
