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CW247
I hope no one here still believes these licenses are "fake"?.
The licences were issued by the competent Authority / Regulator.
However, the means by which they were obtained were by a process not in strict accordance with the Air Navigation Order and other regulations,
as deception and / or fraud is alleged to have occurred
pursuant to the issue thereof.
In other words, they were “at it” in simple parlance.