A FORMER teacher who used an alter-ego to swindle more than £70,000 in a benefits scam has been jailed for two years.
Political refugee Luzia Da Silva Miguel was legally claiming support for herself and her two young children after fleeing from Angola when her teenage son was killed.
But for several years she was also being paid benefits under the false identity of Antonia Bordalo whose `home' was an unoccupied house in Longsight.
The fraud was discovered following a surveillance operation when investigators spotted Miguel, 44, obtaining statements and withdrawing cash from a bank account in the name Bordalo.
Full article at The Manchester Evening News
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