A MEGA-wealthy asylum hotel boss has won a £76.7million contract to run another immigration centre.
Graham King’s Clearsprings Management Limited secured a joint six-year government deal to manage the Haslar Immigration Removal Centre in Gosport, Hants.
Asylum hotel boss Graham King has won a £76.7million contract to run another immigration centre
The immigration removal centre in Gosport
King, 59, was raking in around £3.8million a day from the migrant crisis last year, and his net worth stands at £726million.
He first housed migrants in an old cinema where he grew up in Canvey Island, Essex.
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His firm now manages accommodation for around 30,000 asylum seekers in sites across the South of England and Wales.
The Haslar site was an immigration removal centre for nearly 30 years until it shut in 2015.
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It will house 130 failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals when it reopens in 2027, with plans to accommodate 470 more.
It is next to a golf club and a row of houses, which locals complain they cannot sell.
The Home Office said the procurement process has not concluded, but it held an engagement event for local residents last autumn.
Retired couples like Graham Phillips and Lynne Gould, who live next door to the Haslar centre, cannot sell their four-bed home.
Graham, 75, wants to move because he is worried about foreign crooks living on his doorstep.
He fumed: “People are concerned generally about living in close proximity with 600 people who have no right of residence in the UK and who are waiting to be deported, many of whom have served prison sentences for various crimes.”
