Bulgarians pocket £50m from taxpayer in Britain’s biggest benefits fraud

Britain’s biggest benefit fraud gang convicted after stealing £50m in taxpayers' cash

Five members of an organised gang who claimed almost £54million in Britain's biggest ever benefits fraud case have been convicted.The three women and two men - all from Bulgaria - used hijacked identities and real people to make around 6,000 fraudulent Universal Credit claims over a four-and-a-half year period.Gyunesh Ali, 33, Galina Nikolova, 38, Stoyan Stoyanov, 27, Tsvetka Todorova, 52, and Patritsia Paneva, 26 pleaded guilty to fraud and mon…