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Ex Policeman Claims 19 Children to Receive Benefits

A former police officer has been arrested in Greece on charges of benefit fraud as he had ”invented” a family consisting of nineteen children in order to receive state subsidies worth at least 150,000 euros over the past fifteen years.
According to reports in the Greek press, the 54-year-old divorcee had no children of his own and had left his job (for which he had been paid 1,000 euros a month) in 2001. Since then, officials say, he has constantly lived off the benefits received for his non-existent children. By using photographs and personal details of actually existing children he had accessed on the internet, the man – whose identity has not yet been revealed – managed to forge certificates and other documents needed by Greek parents in requesting state aid for each child.
He had requested an extra child benefit each year, starting from 1996. The fraud only came to light when an official working at the benefit agency became suspicious on noticing that the family boast of by the former policeman would have been the largest in Greece. The man was arrested yesterday when he turned up once again to draw a cheque for 8,000 euros at a human resources employment agency in Athens.

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