The allegedly bogus company, Del-Kleen, got fat state contracts by showing it had insured its workers against injury, a requirement for state government jobs in Texas.

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By then, the original "missing trader" would have disappeared, gone bust, or been revealed as a bogus company which had hijacked the VAT details of a genuine trader.

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Rondos created a bogus website for a company called Real Oportunity Ltd - an employment agency that arranged work for people coming to Scotland from the Slovak Republic and Czech Republic.

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Two years after we met he was sent back to prison on a similar charge as his first, cutting company checks to bogus vendors.

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An employee fingered by a no-match letter can go to another company and use the same bogus number and documents for a year or so, until another letter arrives.

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