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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17859150/fraudster-faked-children-benefits/
A FRAUDSTER invented 188 fake children to scrounge more than £1.7million in benefits.
Ali Bana Mohamed drafted in relatives and friends to submit bogus claims in around 70 different names over a nine-year period.
The ringleader, 40, even hijacked real people’s identities to carry out the scheme targeting the tax credit and child benefit system.
He raked in £1,766,594.87 in total using 188 fictitious children, which he kept track of in detailed notebooks containing bank details for each kid.
Mohamed’s racket was discovered when officials noticed the same number was being used to call the tax credits centre in relation to separate claims.
The scammer, who was already serving 16 years for drug offences, has now been jailed for three-and-a-half years to run consecutively.
His five co-defendants were also jailed for helping carry out the fraud between April 2007 and July 2016.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the six Somalian natives lived in Manchester, Birmingham and London.
Mohamed Maye Omar helped obtain birth certificates that could be used by Bana Mohamed to carry out the fraud….
Bana Mohamed admitted 29 fraud offences, while dad-of-six Maye Omar was jailed for two years after being convicted of fraud….
A FRAUDSTER invented 188 fake children to scrounge more than £1.7million in benefits.
Ali Bana Mohamed drafted in relatives and friends to submit bogus claims in around 70 different names over a nine-year period.
The ringleader, 40, even hijacked real people’s identities to carry out the scheme targeting the tax credit and child benefit system.
He raked in £1,766,594.87 in total using 188 fictitious children, which he kept track of in detailed notebooks containing bank details for each kid.
Mohamed’s racket was discovered when officials noticed the same number was being used to call the tax credits centre in relation to separate claims.
The scammer, who was already serving 16 years for drug offences, has now been jailed for three-and-a-half years to run consecutively.
His five co-defendants were also jailed for helping carry out the fraud between April 2007 and July 2016.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the six Somalian natives lived in Manchester, Birmingham and London.
Mohamed Maye Omar helped obtain birth certificates that could be used by Bana Mohamed to carry out the fraud….
Bana Mohamed admitted 29 fraud offences, while dad-of-six Maye Omar was jailed for two years after being convicted of fraud….
