Tom Young reports:
A civil servant was imprisoned on Friday for accessing 2,500 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) records and diverting other people’s tax credit claims to his own bank accounts.
John Brian Agdomar, 42, used his job at the DWP as a cover to illegally access records to obtain personal information on a read-only basis from the New Tax Credits computer system.
The information allowed Agdomar and his accomplice Olanekan Omatayo Ogunmekan to hijack existing claims for tax credits, diverting the payments into a network of bank accounts.
Both men were jailed for four-and-a-half years.
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