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A gang of five Bulgarians, based in north London, has been convicted in the UK's largest ever benefit fraud case, falsely claiming £54 million in Universal Credit. The fraudulent activities funded a luxury lifestyle, including luxury cars, designer clothes, and expensive watches. The gang submitted around 6,000 bogus claims utilizing false and fake documents. This case marks the largest prosecution of its type in English legal history, involving a total of £53.9m.
"To put it into context, you're looking at the funding for about 130 health centres". Roy Ramm says Britain's biggest benefit scam, in which five Bulgarians have been jailed, involved a 'colossal amount of money'. @znaniye_npo | @Royramm https://t.co/t6yBclB3vD
Five members of a gang that falsely claimed more than £50 million in Universal Credit in the largest benefit fraud in England and Wales have been convicted.
Bulgarians stole £54m in Universal Credit. This is chicken feed. They need to take lessons from Michelle Mone, Dido Harding, and many of the spiv friends of the tory government who've done a runner with BILLIONS of our money from dodgy outsourced government contracts. https://t.co/hsUgqHFf4M
