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Fraud discovered in Britain/ 5 years in prison for Albanian from Kosovo, "father" of 13 children

2025-10-15 22:28:01Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Petrit Musa

By Daily Mail / A migrant from Kosovo pretended to be the father of 13 Albanian babies to secure them with illegal British passports. Petrit Musa, 38, created the fake passport applications on behalf of a criminal gang to secure British citizenship for the children in exchange for “significant sums” of money. This is what the court heard.

Musa, who was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK in 2021, had six passports successfully issued for his children before his fraud was discovered by the Home Office. All of his applications have now been revoked.

Musa was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday morning at Isleworth Crown Court after admitting assisting illegal immigration to Britain. The court heard the construction worker was recruited by the gang after falling into deep debt due to problems with cocaine, alcohol and gambling.

Since he had indefinite leave to remain, his children would have been eligible for British citizenship. Musa used this status to try to secure British passports for 13 Albanian babies – none of whom he was related to.

The babies were the children of Albanian mothers who had travelled to the UK illegally and paid the gang large sums of money for the service. Musa managed to pay off a debt of more than £40,000 through the proceeds, but continued to profit from the scam even after it was resolved, prosecutors said.

Fraud discovered in Britain/ 5 years in prison for Albanian from Kosovo,
Petrit Musa

Prosecutor Oliver Pateman said there were selfies found on Musa's phone showing him holding large amounts of cash and he had made several large cash deposits at a bank near the Westfield Shopping Centre. "We suggested these were the payments Musa was making from the scheme," he said.

Musa made the false applications between June 2022 and October 2024, after which the Ministry of Interior noticed that he had claimed to be the father of several babies with suspiciously close birth dates.

“This is a relatively sophisticated scheme and there is a clear pattern that is followed in each of the 13 cases,” Pateman said. “His role, although limited to passport applications, is essential to the scheme’s overall success.”

Lawyer Patrick Maggs, defending Musa, said his client was not receiving the bulk of the profits from the fraud - which had gone to those higher up in the gang.

"His role was to be the one who put his face and name on the franchise, which was always destined to fail. So he was always the one the authorities would look for, not the ones who took the bulk of the revenue. He was the puppet," the lawyer said.

Judge James Thomas said he accepted that Musa was not the mastermind of the organisation, but he made significant sums of money from the scam. He congratulated Musa on his guilty plea, but said: “Your scam lasted for two years. None of the babies were linked to you. You were paid significant sums of money for each application.”


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