Home Office worker arrest after claim of money request to NI asylum seeker

A Home Office worker has been arrested on suspicion of asking for money to grant UK residency to an asylum seeker living in Northern Ireland.

The intended victim told the BBC that he was contacted by a Home Office decision maker based in the north of England in March. A spokesperson for Lancashire Police said officers from Lancashire Constabulary alongside partners from the Home Office arrested the man, aged in his in his 30s, in the Ramsgreave area of Blackburn on March 19.

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