Suspected welfare fraud gang made €1 million from bogus claims

There's always been the whiff of urban myth about people turning up in welfare offices claiming money for someone else's kids. Now it looks the myth may be true after one suspect arrested today is believed to have claimed for eight kids even though he only had two. Read here. This looks as if it could be as big as the fraud carried out by Paddy Maughan and members of his family who cashed fake giro cheques all over the UK. Read older posts on welfare fraud here.