Sunitha Kemlo, a first offender, was told by a sheriff that she had played “an essential role in the operation of a sophisticated scheme”. Stirling Sheriff Court heard that the mother-of-two was arrested after several clients complained to the police and “a wide-ranging police and Home Office investigation took place”. Individual victims paid sums ranging from £3,000 to over £13,000 for work visas and crucial “certificates of sponsorship” – official documents that act as passports to work in the UK. One Edinburgh-based care firm had never even heard of Bizz Nurse, while reference numbers on certificates of sponsorship that Kemlo had provided were false. The court heard that during the period of the fraud, Kemlo had been paid around £17,000 as “salary” for what she did, while over £96,000 had been remitted to Mwanyali.