After the £42 million VAT caper Sydenham may be getting a reputation for 'smart' crime. Reported today:
"As part of the the pre-planned swoop, code-named Operation Cedar, raids were conducted at two houses - in Sydenham and Brixton - plus a storage facility in Brixton.
More than 300 counterfeit passports were seized the majority of which British, plus Belgian, French, Spanish and Greek passports.
Also seized were up to 1,000 counterfeit driving licences, thousands of blank ID cards awaiting processing, numerous computers, five card printers, a number of laminators, an electric embosser, passport paper, counterfeit national insurance cards and other material connected with the production of counterfeit documents."
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