Adeola Thomas, 38 and his partner, Abimbola Abiola 34, both Nigerians, living in Hackney, East London have been handed jail sentences totalling nine and a half years after being dragged before a Snaresbrook Crown Court for fraudulent activities. Thomas and his partner, Abiola had secured £ 87,000 from fraudulent claims totaling about £ 3.8 million within a period of four years. Thomas admitted to three counts of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering…
Thomas used 1,400 different identities, all stolen, to complete 2, 495 handwritten tax and benefit claims forms. One of the things that however raised suspicion was that he used the same address for all the claims. The court was told that the couple carried out the scam between January 3, 2007 and October 7, 2011, and they tried to claim £827,000 from HMRC out of which they secured £43,000. They also claimed £3 million from the Department of Work and Pensions and received £44,000.
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