2021-11-08
UK-resident couple engaged in social welfare fraud
Stage: Sentence
Outcome: Leendert Stolk (53) was given a four-year sentence in 2019 for social welfare fraud relating to child benefit, rent allowance, back to work allowance and back to school allowance which he claimed for seven years after leaving the country in 2010. The judge handed down a one-year sentence and suspended it on a number of conditions.