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A council housing officer who faked documents to secure properties for illegal immigrants in one of the biggest-ever frauds of its kind is facing jail...
... His “audacious” fraud was uncovered when auditors carried out an investigation into a housing application in 2011. They found that every document used to support the request was fake.
The team uncovered a paper trail of forged references and medical letters stretching back three years which resulted in 23 homes being given to bogus applicants, conning the council and the 20,000 on one of Britain’s longest waiting lists in genuine need of social housing out of properties.
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime...y-9123030.html
“I’m pleased to say that this is much harder since we clamped down hard on fraud, introduced passport scanners to help identify fake documents, and started using ever more intelligent data checks to uncover anything suspicious.”
Why didn't they 'clamp down hard' on this type of fraud before then?
