"But soon after a hotel in Seel Street in Liverpool owned by one of the firms was found to be unsuitable, people in one of their Liverpool housing complexes were told they had to move out over "urgent" fire safety issues, unaware that 116 asylum seekers had seemingly been lined up to replace them almost immediately. Maassarani, whose involvement with one of the firms was hidden behind a complex structure of companies and trusts registered in the Isle of Man,"
"Maassarani, whose involvement with one of the firms was hidden behind a complex structure of companies and trusts registered in the Isle of Man, said he had no part in the day-to-day running of the buildings and did not authorise any communication with tenants. Maassarani operates several GP surgeries in Knowsley and Sefton and in 2009 set up the social isolation charity Care Merseyside."
"Between 2021 and 2022, a company he had founded, Schloss Roxburghe Holdings, acquired about 5m of freeholds on buildings that were originally owned by property developer Elliot Lawless before his companies went into administration. In August 2022, when some of Maassarani's business associates bought the Waverley Hotel in Whitehaven in Cumbria, Serco moved asylum seekers into it within a week."
More than 100 residents faced threats of eviction to make way for asylum seekers after companies linked to Dr Faisal Maassarani became landlords of Serco hotels in 2022 amid near two-decade-high asylum applications. A Seel Street hotel in Liverpool was judged unsuitable and residents in a Liverpool housing complex were ordered to move over "urgent" fire-safety issues while 116 asylum seekers were seemingly lined up as replacements. Maassarani's involvement was structured through companies and trusts registered in the Isle of Man; he denied day-to-day management or authorising tenant communications. Associated firms purchased multiple hotels and Serco moved asylum seekers in rapidly, and allegations include an attempted illegal eviction that nearly displaced dozens.
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