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UK-resident couple engaged in social welfare fraud
Summary
Nadine Stolk, a swim instructor living in the UK, was given a one‑year suspended sentence for her role in child benefit fraud. She discovered that her husband, Leendert Stolk, had been defrauding the State of child benefit payments from 2017 to 2018, and she did nothing to stop it. Stolk pleaded guilty on the first day of her trial to two counts of social welfare fraud relating to child benefit payments between 31 July 2017 and 31 June 2018, resulting in a total loss to the State of €1,540. She has no prior convictions and a good work history. The judge noted her employment as a swim instructor and that one of their sons competes internationally. The sentence was suspended on a number of conditions.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: UK-resident couple engaged in social welfare fraud. Procedural stage: sentence
When:
- July 31, 2017 Hearing Or Sentence
- June 31, 2018 Hearing Or Sentence
- July 2018 Other
- 2021-11-08 Publication
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Defendant
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.
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