2025-07-03
Pakistani man who used false passport to steal €43k in welfare payments avoids jail
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Photo: Collins) A Pakistani man who used a false Afghan passport to claim more than €40,000 in social welfare entitlements over a nine-year period has been given a suspended sentence. However, his family is understood to have difficult circumstances in Pakistan. "It's a very unusual case," remarked Judge Crowe. "He shouldn't have done it by obtaining a false passport." She imposed a sentence of two years on him, but suspended it full on his own recognisance for four years. "This will hang over him for that period of four years," she said.