main content Benefit fraudsters convicted

Two benefit fraudsters were found guilty, at Croydon and Bromley Magistrates Courts, bringing the total prosecuted to 48 since the inception of Bromley Council’s partnership with Greenwich Council in April 2002.

Council Leader Stephen Carr said “These prosecutions prove our resolve to vigorously pursue fraudsters and protect the public purse.”

Carole White, 61, of Isabella Drive, Orpington, pleaded guilty at Bromley Magistrates Court to defrauding Bromley Council of benefits totalling £6,000. She was sentenced to a conditional discharge and ordered to pay costs.

Marion Nguyen, 35, of Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham, pleaded guilty at Croydon Magistrates Court to defrauding Bromley Council of benefits totalling £11,500. She was sentenced to a community punishment order and instructed to pay costs.

The Council is currently seeking to recover overpayment of benefits in both cases.

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Notes to editors: 

• For media enquiries, please contact Luis Remedios on 020 8313 4886 or email luis.remedios@bromley.gov.uk 
• Anyone with any information about a suspected benefit fraud should contact (in strict confidence) the Fraud Hotline on 0800 169 6975
• Bromley Council works in partnership with Greenwich Council’s Corporate Anti-Fraud Team. 
• These prosecutions brings to 48 the number of prosecutions for the period to mid- December 2005. We have also been able to claim back £272,000 in reward money for prosecutions, cautions, summonses and administrative penalties over three and a half years.