A CAFE owner who paid a civil servant to help asylum seekers stay in the country has been told he faces jail for 'undermining the whole immigration system'.
Naci Natji, of Westerham Avenue, Edmonton, admitted passing on money to Home Office employee Sean McKeon in exchange for departmental documents that would help an asylum seeker to stay in the country.
Southwark Crown Court heard that 37-year-old Natji, a former Home Office employee, handed over £250 on each occasion he was passed the files. He had charged his 'clients' up to £500 as a fee for his work. He admitted two charges of corruption in 1996.
Natji, who runs Chubby's Diner in Lordship Lane, Wood Green, was nabbed as part of a massive corruption investigation in the Home Office named Operation Colina. But he could not be prosecuted until arrests and convictions of other Home Office officials had been made by police.
Natji was bailed until June 2 to await pre-sentence reports.
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