2015-06-22
Moldovan national spared jail for €15,000 unemployment benefit fraud
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He asked the judge to take into consideration Alexei's early plea, her admissions and the fact that she would have been entitled to unemployment benefit had she not "used the wrong mechanism." Judge Nolan suspended the sentence for two years and ordered that the €2,000 be handed over to the Department of Social Protection.