Two Romanians stole hundreds of thousands of pounds from UK taxes and child benefits

The indictment drawn up by the prosecutor at the Bucharest Court of Appeal ordered the trial in preventive detention of two defendants, accused of illegal access to the computer system on a continuous basis, computer fraud on a continuous basis, and money laundering on a continuous basis. The two defendants are accused of having unlawfully accessed Government Gateway accounts between September 2023 and January 2025, which are personal accounts for the collection of taxes and child benefits made available by the British Government to British citizens and persons with the right of residence in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with each defendant fraudulently obtaining £495,040.13 and £921,467.3 respectively from the British authorities. „Specifically, the (…)