Trudy Ali-Balogun,
55, a Southwark Council Officer was said to have given tenancies worth
£2.4 million to fraudsters claiming to be homeless. She also took bribes
of £2,000 to wave through bogus applications which included fake birth
certificates passports and wage slips and spent the money on foreign
holidays, Inner London Crown Court heard.
Ali-Balogun
who approved at least 20 bogus applications for housing between 2003
and 2005, also altered records to show applicants were “homeless”. She
was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment after she was found guilty in
April.
Biayo Awotiwon, 47, who received £226,000 of housing for 12 years at a property in Tooley Street in Southwark, and Adeyemi Olalekan Oyedele,
48, a former assistant to the Nigerian High Commissioner who is
refusing to leave his Bermondsey flat were both sentenced to 5 months
imprisonment.
Kudiartu Falana,
60, was jailed for five months, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to
complete 200 hours of community service. She obtained a four-bedroom
property in central London in 2004 which she bought it in 2007 at a
£60,000 discount under the Right to Buy scheme.
Joseph Akin Oliaya,
53, who invented children and used a fake passport to get housing was
jailed for six months, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to complete
200 hours of community service.
Awotiwon,
Oyedele, and Falana were found guilty of obtaining services by
deception, while Olaiya was found guilty of attempting to obtain service
by deception. They all denied the charges.
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