Couple built up property porfolio on benefits fraud

A pub manager and his wife cheated taxpayers out of £630,000 to build up a ‘Monopoly’ style property empire stretching to the Canary Islands, a court heard. Steve Benstock, 62, and Kim Benstock, 69, made fake claims to the Department of Work and Pensions while failing to declare massive earnings to the taxman for for two decades. Living the high life with cash from property sales and rental incomes, the brazen thieves eventually had enough money to buy an ‘impressive’…