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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Gordon Currie

BIZARRE: Scots benefits cheat who posed as dead dad to steal 22k ordered to pay back 1 - What They Never Told You

A fraudster who conned the benefits agency out of nearly £22,000 by posing as his dead father has been ordered to pay back £1.

Hassan Mirza was made the subject of a Proceeds of Crime action after duping the Department of Work and Pensions and Dundee City Council.

However, Dundee Sheriff Court was told that the Crown had agreed to accept just £1 from Mirza to bring the action to an end.

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