Two Albanian brothers who organised a protest in which their nation’s flag was draped over Winston Churchill’s statue lied to get into the UK, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
In November, Taulant and Enkeleid Omi led a demonstration in Westminster in which 1,500 of their countrymen proclaimed they were not criminals – after Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that Britain faced an ‘invasion’ of illegal migrants.
Now it has emerged that the brothers – who this newspaper has previously revealed were convicted people smugglers – made a false asylum claim to enter the UK.
The Home Office discovered they used false identities to claim they were fleeing the 1998 war in Kosovo, rather than coming from peaceful Albania.
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In a letter sent to Taulant last month, the Home Office’s fraud team said that revoking his citizenship had been considered, but rejected it as it ‘does not fall within our policy’.
It said: ‘The Secretary of State was considering depriving you of your British citizenship on the grounds that it had been obtained as a result of fraud.’
The letter went on to offer Taulant an amnesty to correct his record using his real name.
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