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January 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Russell Myers and David Rebouh
Last updated at 10:55 PM on 31st December 2011
Hassan Gilani, 58, has received up to £180,000 in housing benefits and disability allowance in the UK on top of £112,000 in benefits from Denmark
A British father of three is under investigation for an alleged £292,000 benefit fraud in both the UK and Denmark.
Hassan Gilani, 58, has received up to £110,000 in housing benefit on top of £70,000 in disability allowance from the UK taxpayer since 1997.
He also banked an estimated £112,000 of benefits in Denmark since 2002 after claiming that he can barely walk and has severe difficulty with basic tasks such as eating and dressing himself.
But last week he was pictured in trainers and a blue duffel coat, walking unaided to a branch of Barclays near his £250,000 taxpayer-funded home in Croydon, South London.
On another occasion he left his house with a crutch before tossing it into the front seat of his green Mercedes and driving to a local branch of Western Union, a money transfer company used to send funds abroad.
His alleged fraud came to light after Danish authorities received a tip-off in September that Gilani had not been seen at his flat in the Nordvest district of Copenhagen for more than two years but was continuing to receive state benefits.
Investigators alerted British authorities after they traced him to a three-bedroom house in Croydon – more than 850 miles from the Danish capital. Records show Gilani receives the maximum amount of disability benefit in the UK.
He was paid incapacity benefit from 1999 to 2002, totalling £4,900 a year, after convincing the social services that he could not work due to a disability.
In 2002, Gilani was transferred on to income support – a benefit for people unable to work due to ill- health – getting up to £2,700 a year.
And in 2005 he was placed on one of the maximum levels of disability living allowance, netting him a further £5,000 annually.
Fraud investigators from the Department for Work and Pensions launched their own investigation last month and will now examine all his benefit claims since 1996. Gilani, who is originally from Pakistan, faces up to seven years in jail in Britain if he is found guilty of misleading social services to claim state support.
Danish authorities believe he may have rented out his apartment in Copenhagen while claiming the Danish equivalent of housing benefits and disability living allowance.
This would have netted him the equivalent of about £1,000 a month in benefits and potentially up to £800 a month in rent he was not entitled to because the property is owned by the local authority.
Gilani appeared on the electoral roll in Denmark in 2002, moving into a rented three-bedroom apartment in the Nordvest district. He was able to claim up to £860 a month in incapacity benefit after once again convincing the authorities that he had a disability which prevented him from working.
In 2005, he began to claim housing benefit in the country, adding about £250 to his monthly benefit allocation.
Mr Gilani walks from his three-bedroom Croydon house unaided to where investigators tracked him down
Authorities in Copenhagen had been given a tip off that Gilani had not been seen at his house for more than two years
It is believed he continued to claim both benefits until October this year when they were stopped by Danish authorities after the tip-off.
Benefit cheats cost the British taxpayer more than £1 billion a year. If offenders are found guilty of fraud, they are required to pay back the money they have stolen.
Records show Gilani’s household received £110,000 from Croydon council in housing benefit and council tax relief from 1996 to 1997 and 2003 to 2011. He stopped receiving housing and council tax benefits in Croydon for a six-year period.
Under the Government’s right-to-buy scheme, he was able to buy his rented three-bedroom council house in 1997 for £19,000, which he is believed to have sold for a significant profit later.
The housing benefit paid since 2003 relates to another house where he currently lives. Between 1997 and 2003, he was on the electoral roll at addresses in Birmingham and Cardiff.
Investigators from the DWP will now look at whether Gilani claimed housing benefits at these other addresses after purchasing the council house in Croydon.
He could face further charges of fraud if he used benefits from a different local authority to pay his mortgage.
Sources say that Gilani and his wife, Iffat, 58, will also be investigated over the purchase of another property in 2004, less than three miles from their Croydon home.
According to Land Registry records, the three-bedroom semi-detached house is owned by his daughter, Saira, 29, who would have been only 22 at the time it was bought for £245,000.
Gilani tosses his crutch onto the front seat of his Green Mercedes before driving to a branch of Western Union
When The Mail on Sunday called at the house, an Eastern European woman answered the door and said she was renting the property through a local estate agent.
Last night it was revealed that the DWP is also investigating Mrs Gilani on suspicion of fraudulently claiming disability living allowance and housing benefit over the past three years.
The couple, who married in South Glamorgan in 1978, have two daughters, Saira and Sana, 27, and a son, Saklan, 33. Sana could also be investigated after it was revealed that she receives carer’s allowance for looking after her mother.
Robert Oxley, campaign manager at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘It’s outrageous that a suspected benefit cheat has allegedly been able to play two welfare systems so easily and for so much taxpayers’ cash.’
When The Mail on Sunday visited Gilani at his home he confirmed his name before saying that his name was Mohammed and he did not know anyone called Hassan. When asked if he was fraudulently receiving housing and disability benefits, he refused to answer and briskly walked away from his house.
The DWP refused to comment on Gilani’s case but a spokesman said: ‘Benefit thieves are costing the taxpayer almost £1 billion a year. We will tackle this problem on the front line but also at the root by reforming the system to make it less open to abuse.’
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