11:19am Thursday 2nd September 2010
By Jack Royston
A WEMBLEY woman who claimed benefits despite owning property abroad has been jailed.
Unemployed Angela Aniakor, of Windermere Avenue, was rumbled after it took her just hours to stump up £25,000 in bail money for her brother.
Andrew Aniakor, 29, of Westminster, had been charged after police found almost £100,000 and three forged Nigerian passports during a raid on Edgware Safe Depository in June 2008.
When she was able to pay his bail money so quickly detectives investigated her own finances and found she was committing benefit fraud and subletting a council house to the tune of £138,000.
At the same time she was living a lavish lifestyle, going on exotic foreign holidays. She was jailed for 18 months on Thursday, August 26, for a series of fraud offences.
He brother was jailed yesterday for three years at Southwark Crown Court.
Detective Chief Inspector Terri Nicholson, from the Economic and Specialist Crime Command, said: “The result illustrates the value of using financial investigation to target organised criminal networks.”
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