Samuel Peprah jailed for €60,000 social welfare fraud

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Samuel Peprah was sentenced to two years in prison for social welfare fraud at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 18 April 2018. Judge Martin Nolan had set a headline sentence of four years. The proceedings were reported on 18 April 2018.

Peprah pleaded guilty to sample counts representing 22 fraud charges committed between October 2013 and November 2016. He claimed allowances while working full time in the kitchens of Dublin’s Merrion Hotel, leaving the State €63,218 short.

The court heard that Peprah worked under an assumed name while claiming Rent Allowance, Jobseekers’ Allowance and Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance under his own name.