By
Lewis Berrill
@LewisBerrill
Chief reporter - east London and west Essex
(Stock image) An organised crime group (OCG) has?been sentenced??to a combined total of eight years and four months at?Inner London Crown Court?for committing £385,000 of benefit fraud
An Enfield bank employee has been jailed for her role in an organised crime group that committed £385,000 of benefit fraud.
On February 4 of last year, Santino Laskowski was present during an attempt to open an account at a bank branch in Barking using someone else’s credentials and a fraudulently obtained utility bill.
He was arrested and officers found messages on the 25-year-old’s phone contained numerous details of fraudulently opened bank accounts in the names of others, and messages between himself and gang member Ali Tariq, 41, exchanging fraudulent bank account information.