PRISON FOR CITY RESIDENT FOR SOCIAL WELFARE FRAUD

Date Published: 13-Jul-2007

A Galway resident who claimed over 36,000 euro in social welfare payments using a false PPS number has been jailed for seven months.

Russia native 38 year old Zachir Merzhoyev of 138 Ros an Glas, Rahoon was sentenced at Galway District Court this week

During sentencing, Judge Mary Fahy said that if everyone defrauded the Department of Social and Family Affairs in that way, the country would soon be bankrupt