Iraqi asylum cheat who got £700,000 in benefits, three houses and private school
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An asylum seeker bought three homes and sent her son to a fee-paying school by illegally claiming more than £700,000 in benefits, a court heard.
Mahira Rustam Al-Azawi, 49, used a series of false identities to milk Britain's lax benefit system over eight years.
Although she never worked, she was able to purchase three properties - two of which she rented out - worth in excess of £1million.
Her 18-year-old son was educated at Colfe's School, in South-East London, where fees are currently £4,164 a term.
The fraud was uncovered only when Al-Azawi, from Iraq, successfully applied for a student loan to study civil engineering at Greenwich University.
When police raided her £800,000 detached home in Bromley, they found an 'Aladdin's cave' of false documents, including a selection of passports, identity papers and driving licences.
Welcome to the United Kingdom, where entering is easy, cheating our system is easy and we're too blind to see it! :)