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Two arrested in Operation Gomozia
02 July 2009
Police officers from the UK Border Agency's joint immigration crime team have charged two men from St Leonards-on-Sea with offences related to facilitating illegal immigration.
Bladymar Buckak, aged 32, of Angelsea Terrace has been charged with conspiring to facilitate unlawful entry and carrying out an act tending and intended to pervert the course of justice. He has also been charged with using a false document.
Alexander Peter Brown, aged 60, of Blomfield Road has been charged with conspiring to facilitate unlawful entry, and with solemnizing a marriage according to the rites of the Church of England without banns of matrimony being duly published.
Both men have been remanded in custody, while another man and a woman have been bailed pending further enquiries.
The charges follow Operation Gomozia, which took place on Tuesday 30 June 2009 and included searches on five addresses in the St Leonards and Hastings area.
The Crown Prosecution Service's complex casework unit has advised UK Border Agency officers on the charges relating to the operation.