Showing posts with label Fraud. Show all posts
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Friday, November 2, 2012

Ugandan Family Fraudsters Jailed For A Total Of 19 Years For £4million Worth Of Benefit Fraud In The UK

Jordan Sebutemba (Left), Property owned by one of the fradster in Uganda (Up) and Fraudsters (Down)
The family of fraudsters of an ‘outrageous abuse of the hospitality’ shown to them by Britain were jailed yesterday for stealing £4million from taxpayers.

The 20-year scam included one of the fraud ringleaders creating fake identities for up to 100 children to milk the benefits system.

The ringleader, Ruth Nagubuzi also claimed to have HIV and Aids in order to receive costly drugs which she then sent back to Uganda for huge profits. It was estimated that supplying the medicines to the 49-year-old, as well as four other made-up ‘sufferers’, cost the taxpayer more than £2million. A further £154,000 went on education for members of the ‘family’, with £37,500 for a single higher education course.

Fraud relating to accommodation costs and sub-letting of flats by Nagubuzi cost £650,000, and the family’s benefits including child allowances, disability benefits, and council tax and tax credits totalled £900,000.

The gang’s gains were spent on a complex consisting of luxury apartments, shops, restaurants and a hotel in Nagubuzi’s home city of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Plans for building new properties were found when police raided the gang’s homes across East London.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Italian Fraudster Commits Suicide in EFCC Custody


Mr. Mauro Zanin
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced the death of a 52 year old Italian, Mr. Mauro Zanin, who died in the bathroom of the Commission’s detention facility in Abuja, early Tuesday morning.
A statement by the EFCC’s spokesperson Wilson Uwujarena, stated that the Mr Zanin who was arrested for fraudulently obtaining the sum of $111,000 from Gladwaters Nigeria Limited, passed away, two days before he was scheduled to appear in court.
According to the statement, the Italian was “found motionless in the bathroom of the Commission’s detention facility in Abuja at about 4.50 am on June 19, 2012”, adding that “he had apparently committed suicide using his bed sheet.”
“Zanin took his own life a day to his scheduled arraignment. He was supposed to be arraigned before the Federal High Court (5) in Abuja on Wednesday, June 20, 2012.”
All effort by the duty officers and a team of EFCC medical personnel led by Dr. Gideon Osi of the Commission’s Medical Unit to revive him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation proved futile and he was subsequently certified dead at about 5.45 am.
Though all clues point to suicide, the incident has been reported to the Nigeria Police Station, Maitama for investigation.
The deceased was arrested by Officers of the Nigerian Immigration Service following a complaint by one Ahamefula Chibuzor Ewuzie that he fraudulently obtained the sum of $111,000 from Gladwaters Nigeria Limited.