25 years for Bulgarian crooks behind Britain’s biggest dole fraud

Five Bulgarian fraudsters who mocked the Department of Work and Pensions as they raked in £54m from Britain’s biggest ever benefit fraud have been jailed for more than 25 years. The Eastern European gang hijacked 6,000 identities to make claims for Universal Credit and used the names of children living in Bulgaria as part of the five year scam. They set up three ‘benefit factories’ across London churning out bogus tenancy agreements, counterfeit payslips and forged letters from landlords, employers,…