{"id":3796,"date":"2009-04-21T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/04\/21\/benefit-fraudster-flees-to-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:34:41","slug":"benefit-fraudster-flees-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/21\/benefit-fraudster-flees-to-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit Fraudster flees to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Police issue arrest warrant for Zeba Akhtar in \u00a380,000 benefits fraud<\/h3>\n<div><strong>A LECIESTER woman wanted in connection with benefit fraud is believed to have fled to Pakistan.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Zeba Akhtar was due at Leicester Crown Court to face charges of falsely claiming nearly \u00a380,000 in benefits. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But after she failed to turn up and an arrest warrant was issued. Police believe she may have fled to Pakistan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Her partner Aquil Egbewo was jailed for eight months at Leicester crown Court for his part in the fraud. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The court was told both Akhtar and Egbewo had legitimately made a claim for benefits including unemployment benefits, council tax and housing benefit, and incapacity benefit.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But when Egbewo started work as a police officer with Leicestershire Constabulary he failed to notify the authorities. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Egbewo pleaded guilty to his part in the benefit fraud, which involved a total overpayment of \u00a377,389.43.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Leicester City Council\u2019s revenues and benefits investigations manager, Stuart Limb, said: \u201cThis case sends out a strong message that we will investigate anyone suspected of committing benefit fraud.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIn this case, the fraudulent claims took place over a long period, and involved a huge amount of money.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police issue arrest warrant for Zeba Akhtar in \u00a380,000 benefits fraud A LECIESTER woman wanted in connection with benefit fraud is believed to have fled to Pakistan. &#13; Zeba Akhtar was due at Leicester Crown Court to face charges of falsely claiming nearly \u00a380,000 in benefits. &#13; But after she failed to turn up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}