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09/08/2012
Welfare Fraudster Given 48 Hours To Leave Ireland Or Face Jail
A court has given a 36-year-old man from Lithuania 48 hours to leave Ireland or face a 10-month jail term.
Rolandas Undzenas pleaded guilty to defrauding the social welfare system of more than €5,000 by claiming entitlements while not resident in the State.
Undzenas, formerly of the Funshion, River Valley, Mallow, Co Cork, appeared at a special sitting of Mallow District Court after he was arrested by gardaí boarding a flight at Cork Airport bound for Gdansk in Poland.
pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonestly deceiving the Irish people by signing on for social welfare payments while not resident within the State of Ireland with the intention of making gain for himself or others.
He admitted committing the offences at the social welfare office at Davis Street, Mallow, on two occasions – May 29th, 2012, and again on June 26th, 2012 – with the fraudulently claimed money totalling €5,600, the court was told.
The case came to light after the Department of Social Protection received a tip-off that Undzenas, who had come to Ireland in 2005 and was working here, was no longer resident in the State.
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Rolandas Undzenas pleaded guilty to defrauding the social welfare system of more than €5,000 by claiming entitlements while not resident in the State.
Undzenas, formerly of the Funshion, River Valley, Mallow, Co Cork, appeared at a special sitting of Mallow District Court after he was arrested by gardaí boarding a flight at Cork Airport bound for Gdansk in Poland.
pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonestly deceiving the Irish people by signing on for social welfare payments while not resident within the State of Ireland with the intention of making gain for himself or others.
He admitted committing the offences at the social welfare office at Davis Street, Mallow, on two occasions – May 29th, 2012, and again on June 26th, 2012 – with the fraudulently claimed money totalling €5,600, the court was told.
The case came to light after the Department of Social Protection received a tip-off that Undzenas, who had come to Ireland in 2005 and was working here, was no longer resident in the State.
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