Bombers on the Dole
Charles Johnson
Sat Aug 6, 2005 at 8:03 am PDT • Views: 209
The four July 21 bombing suspects apparently bilked the British government out of more than half a million pounds. (Hat tip: filtrat.)
POLICE are investigating allegations that the four suspected July 21 bombers collected more than £500,000 in benefits payments in Britain.
The claim was made as the Bank of England moved to freeze financial accounts belonging to the men. Bank officials also disclosed the financial details of the suspects, Ramzi Mohammad, Yasin Hassan Omar, Muktar Said-Ibrahim and Hussain Osman. These showed how the men, all in custody, have used multiple aliases and addresses in recent years.
Mr Ibrahim, is said to have had six aliases. Some are also shown to have claimed several nationalities, ages and national insurance numbers while in Britain. Investigators believe that bogus names were used to make some benefit claims.
Two are also alleged to have obtained asylum using bogus passports and false names and nationalities.
All the addresses registered to the suspects were in Greater London, and each man is known to have had at least one national insurance number.
Frank says: