Brazilian police busts pension swindle gang
Brazilian police Thursday arrested 16 members of a gang allegedly swindling pensions and compensations from the government by using fake IDs.
The gang has been using forged documents and impersonating relatives of the dead to obtain pensions and other benefits since 2007, and sometimes it even requested pensions in the name of the dead with no relatives.
The case involved 165 pension payments totalling some 3 million reais (1.59 million U.S. dollars), with at least nine of which related to victims of plane crashes and worth monthly payment of 28,000 reais (14,814 dollars).
The arrested included several government employees at social security agencies and they would be charged with crimes of embezzlement, forgery and identity theft.
Editor: Wang
English.news.cn 2011-11-25 10:50:24 FeedbackPrintRSS
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 24 (Xinhua)
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