A benefits fraudster who stole £172,000 of taxpayers’ money and tried to cheat Rishi Sunak‘s Eat Out To Help Out initiative has been jailed for 40 months.
Delivery driver Atikur Rahman, 34, was sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court in Kent after pleading guilty to multiple fraud charges over a six-year period.
He had assumed the identities of his closest friends and family to steal benefits payments between July 2015 and May 2021.
Rahman used 26 identities along with fictitious companies, employment information and children to make more than 40 claims for multiple benefits including maternity allowance, Universal Credit, tax credits and child benefit.
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