Qatari in benefits fraud scam

And this guy was being sponsored by the generosity of the Qatar government already. I hope the government of Qatar gets his money back when he lands in Qatar!

A PhD student from Qatar has been deported after pocketing more than £250,000 in benefits - by pretending to be an asylum seeker.

Mohammed Al-Sulaiti, a student who lives in Swansea, South Wales, bagged more than a quarter-of-a-million in benefits and funding after claiming his family had no cash, investments or property when he claimed asylum in 2005.
Al-Sulaiti, 35, was jailed for two years and sent back to Qatar after admitting receiving benefits that paid for his accommodation, utility bills, and £400 a week spending money for him and his family.

UK Border Agency investigators later discovered he had several thousand pounds in bank accounts, and numerous business interests and investments.

They also found that he was being sponsored to study at the University of Swansea by a medical firm and the government of his home country.

Al-Sulaiti came into the country on a student visa in 2005. When this visa expired, he applied for asylum, which was granted - despite him already living and working in the UK.

'He stole thousands of pounds from the public purse and people who commit serious offences of this nature should be deported at the earliest possible opportunity.'

Jailing Al-Sulaiti for two years at Cardiff Crown Court after he admitted benefit fraud, Judge Stephen Hopkins QC called him 'a thoroughly dishonest and devious man'.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006874/Thoroughly-dishonest-dev...