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Czechs Arrested in England for Benefit Fraud

23. 3. 2010

Two Czechs and four Slovaks have been arrested last night after claiming half-a-million pounds in benefits in England, based on a false company, called Ragob Building Services, on Tyneside, benefitting from the applications on behalf of workers from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, on the grounds they were working fewer than 16 hours a week.

They would get Czechs and Polish people to fly into England just for a few days, when they would sign applications for working tax credits, child tax credit and child benefits to be processed.

In total, 55 benefit applications were made during 21 months.

Petr Bogar, 36, Jarmila Konopová, 51, Miroslav Bogar, 54, Paulina Bogarová, 34, Martin Bogar, 35 and Martin Balog, 26 are now all in jail in England. Of the 55 employees that submitted applications for benefits, 38 were successful and 17 were rejected.

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