Lawyer caught by BBC offering to make illegal-worker fine go away

• A BBC undercover investigation has found a solicitor offering to help a business owner dodge a fine for employing an illegal worker. • Mohammad Alias Yousaf, a Bradford-based solicitor known as Alias, told an undercover reporter posing as a mini-mart owner that the fine could be avoided if someone overseas declared themselves the owner of the business. • Yousaf denies ever giving such advice or providing false information to the Home Office. • Home Office figures obtained by the BBC show at least £150m in illegal-working fines is currently uncollected, and the home secretary has ordered...