Nasreen Akhtar, 50 of Howgill Crescent, Oldham, who falsely said she was disabled and a single parent in order to scam £260,000 in benefits is jailed after she was seen dancing at a wedding and caught living with her partner.
Nasreen Akhtar fraudulently claimed £260,000 through in benefits between 2002 and 2013 for being a single parent with poor mobility claiming she was too ill to work.
She was caught after a tip-off Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) began investigation in 2012, during a raid police at her home in 2013, her partner was found on her bed, whom she claimed she did not have the one.
While she claimed she was “too ill to work” and had “poor mobility” and “significant care needs”, she was seen
She had claimed housing benefit for a house she rented and council tax relief as a single parent, when she had actually owned the house jointly with her partner.
While having significant savings and other properties as well she claimed income support for being single parent.
She also had claimed disability living allowance, but she was seen out and about with her family and dancing at a wedding.
She carried out an extremely complex benefits fraud and it had taken three years for CPS and the DWP to bring Akhtar to justice. Even at start of her trial in 2017, she attempted, to have herself found unfit to stand trial, causing further cost to the taxpayer.
But the court and the judge decided that she was fit and well enough to stand trial. She admitted seven counts of fraud against the local authority and the DWP, was jailed for two years at Manchester Crown Court. Proceedings will begin to recover taxpayers’ money from her.
