Bulgarians, Galina Nikolova, 38, Stoyan Stoyanov, 27, Tsvetka Todorova, 52, Gyunesh Ali, 33, and Patritsia Paneva, 26, pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering related offences at Wood Green Crown Court for multi-million-pound scam.
It was revealed in April that Universal Credit has cost £11 billion in fraud in the past two years, with £5.5 billion being pilfered last year alone, according to the National Audit Office.
Gang plundered £54 MILLION off taxpayers in fake ID scheme During a four-and-a-half-year spree, a gang of five crooks used a combination of fake identities and real customers to make roughly 6,000 fraudulent Universal Credit claims, operating out of three 'benefits factories' in north London. Nikolova and Stoyanov pose at an attraction during a lavish trip to Istanbul in September 2020, before later sharing a photo together on a jaunt to Manchester in October 2020
Nikolova, Stoyanov, 27, Tsvetka Todorova, 52, Gyunesh Ali, 33, and Patritsia Paneva, 26, all entered guilty pleas at Wood Green Crown Court which were last month accepted by the CPS. Prosecutors said the gang used the benefits system 'like a cash machine'. Pictured: Huge stacks of cash found during the investigation
The enormous haul of money gained from the claims was laundered through a number of accounts, then withdrawn in cash – with £750,000 in bank notes found stuffed in suitcases at one of their homes Read More 'Disabled' benefits cheat who swindled £70,000 over a decade and claimed she could barely walk faces prison after it is revealed she was able to run a 5k four times a week However, the 50-year-old was filmed by fraud investigators running three mile circuits from her home in Stanley, Perthshire up to four times per week.
'You have obtained, through fraud, a significant sum of money to which you had no entitlement and you have deprived the taxpayer of funds that might have been usefully spent elsewhere. a fraud investigation team set up secret surveillance to capture Bond running around lengthy circuits from her homeBond was also ordered to pay back the cash she conned from taxpayers under proceeds of crime legislation.
UK's 'worst benefits cheat', 72, who hid father's death Amateur actress Ethel McGill, 72, used all her thespian skills to pretend she had dementia and hid her father's death to swindle £750,000 The dishonest OAP was even given an extra eight months on her sentence in August 2020 for failing to pay back £200,500 of her ill-gotten gains under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The CPS said at the time that it was one of the 'largest ever cases of benefit fraud by a single person'. She even appeared at court in a wheelchair carrying a pack of incontinence pads that she used to try and cover her face from photographers. Their home, which was protected by security gates, had a convoy of vehicles including a Jaguar, Mercedes, Range Rover and a Transit van with a trailer on their driveway.
But Ellis had been claiming housing benefit as a tenant before paying it to her partner Lucas, a self-employed businessman, as her landlord and the property owner.They found £35,000 along with other stashes of cash in the kitchen and a handful of Mexican currency.The couple were arrested at the scene and taken to St Anne Street police station for questioning.
Fraudster faked identities of 200 children to pocket at least £1.7 MILLION Ali Bana Mohamed faked the identities of almost 200 children to pocket public money. The DWP launched a probe, Operation Paratrooper, and investigators discovered that Mohamed and six others were behind the fraud. It would have been longer had he not already been serving 16 years for drugs and immigration offences.
The brazen benefits cheat defrauded the taxpayer for £10,000 while lavishing cash on a boob job, other cosmetic surgery and a Peloton exercise bike.Bradley, of Ironworks close, Cinderford, Gloucestershire, admitted failing to declare capital after DWP investigators caught up with her, bringing her spending spree to an end.
Read More Virgin Atlantic benefits cheat air stewardess ripped off taxpayer for £10,000 that she blew on a boob job, personal trainer, a new smile and £4,000 Peloton exercise bike while hiding £48,000 'given her by ex-lovers' Bradley used the stolen taxpayer cash to live on while spending tens of thousands of pounds on cosmetic surgery including a breast lift and designer dental work, the DWP said.
But the mother-of-three was busted after inspectors from the Department of Work and Pensions logged onto Bostock's Facebook page and saw a series of lovey dovey pictures of her with Mr Sykes, who works for a floor screeding firm - including two images at his Christmas works do.
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