Benefit fraud crackdown brings results in Ealing (From Ealing Times)

Benefit fraud crackdown brings results in Ealing

8:36am Monday 23rd January 2012 in News

MORE Ealing benefit frauds have been exposed and the culprits brought to justice.

Former Ealing resident Kashif Khan, of Wigmore Court, Green Man Estate, was found guilty of six accounts, including obtaining a council flat by deception.

Khan made false statements on his application, failed to declare he was joint proprietor of a property in Southall and falsely declared he was being made homeless. The financial loss to Ealing Council totalled £45,392.29.

He was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court to 10 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and also 300 hours of unpaid work to be completed in 12 months.

A former resident of The Green, Southall, Audre Henry, fraudulently claimed £7,425.92 in housing benefits and £5,287.14 in Jobseekers’ Allowance.

She used her sister’s identity to make the fraudulent claims between July 2007 and November 2009.

Henry, an overstay from Jamaica, who was initially detained by the UK Border Agency, was sentenced at Isleworth to five months concurrent on each count, minus 74 days which had already been served.

A father and son fraudulently claimed £22,115.08 in housing benefit from Ealing, a further £27,286.08 from Hounslow and £2826.01 in council tax benefit.

Whilst living at addresses in Ealing and Hounslow, Ragbeer Singh failed to notify either borough that his landlord, Pritpal Dhingra, was in fact his father. His family members had always occupied both properties and there was no commercial tenancy at either address.

Singh was sentenced to 10 months and Dhingra to eight months.