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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Gordon Currie & Steven Rae

Scots benefits cheat stole £20k pretending to be dead dad for two years

A Scottish fraudster stole more than £20,000 in benefits by pretending to be his dead father for more than two years.

Conman Hassan Mirza, 39, posed as his 72-year-old father to dupe the benefits agency as well as Dundee City Council.

He pretended to be his late father Abdul Majid Mirza to claim benefits more than three years after the pensioner had passed away.

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