{"id":63179,"date":"2026-10-21T05:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-we-dont-pay-lawyer-advises-how-to-avoid-45000-illegal-worker-fine\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:59:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:59:54","slug":"watch-we-dont-pay-lawyer-advises-how-to-avoid-45000-illegal-worker-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-we-dont-pay-lawyer-advises-how-to-avoid-45000-illegal-worker-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: &#8216;We don&#8217;t pay&#8217; &#8211; lawyer advises how to avoid \u00a345,000 illegal-worker fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A solicitor has been secretly filmed by the BBC explaining how he could make a \u00a345,000 illegal working fine go away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mohammad Alias Yousaf, also known as Alias, made the claim to an undercover reporter posing as a mini-mart owner facing a fine for employing an illegal worker. The Bradford-based solicitor told his potential client he could get out of the fine &#8211; if he could find someone overseas prepared to declare themselves the owner of the mini-mart. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alias has denied ever providing such advice, or giving false information to the Home Office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response to our investigation, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a review of the way illegal working fines are issued and collected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Our UK editor, Ed Thomas, reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cm93z1j33dkpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solicitor has been secretly filmed by the BBC explaining how he could make a \u00a345,000 illegal working fine go away. Mohammad Alias Yousaf, also known as Alias, made the claim to an undercover reporter posing as a mini-mart owner facing a fine for employing an illegal worker. The Bradford-based solicitor told his potential client [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[11457,600,2758,890,17177,9401,819,1509],"class_list":["post-63179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-advises","tag-avoid","tag-dont","tag-fine","tag-illegalworker","tag-lawyer","tag-pay","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63181,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63179\/revisions\/63181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}