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17/07/2012
Rogue Traders Presenter Jailed For Benefit Fraud
A BBC television presenter has been jailed for 12 weeks after he was found guilty of benefit fraud totalling more than £24,000.
Dan Penteado, 40, a present on the consumer affairs program Rogue Traders admitted eight offences of dishonestly or knowingly claiming housing and council tax benefits.
Bournemouth Magistrates' Court heard he failed to declare his BBC earnings.
Penteado has been the motorbike riding on-screen sidekick of Rogue Traders star Matt Allwright since 2001.
The prosecution said the offences went back to 2007 when Penteado filled out his first claim form and failed to declare he had another bank account.
He then repeated the same fraud on each subsequent claim until 2011.
During this time Penteado did not tell Bournemouth Borough Council that he had earned more than £56,000 from his work on the television show.
He was paid a total of £24,077 in housing and council tax benefits.
His solicitor Terrence Scanlan told the court he committed the fraud from 2008 to 2012 because he was on a short-term contract with the BBC and made the "very poor judgment not to interrupt the flow of housing benefit".
The council brought the prosecution after a member of staff dealing with a benefits claim recognised the TV personality from a newspaper article.
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Dan Penteado, 40, a present on the consumer affairs program Rogue Traders admitted eight offences of dishonestly or knowingly claiming housing and council tax benefits.
Bournemouth Magistrates' Court heard he failed to declare his BBC earnings.
Penteado has been the motorbike riding on-screen sidekick of Rogue Traders star Matt Allwright since 2001.
The prosecution said the offences went back to 2007 when Penteado filled out his first claim form and failed to declare he had another bank account.
He then repeated the same fraud on each subsequent claim until 2011.
During this time Penteado did not tell Bournemouth Borough Council that he had earned more than £56,000 from his work on the television show.
He was paid a total of £24,077 in housing and council tax benefits.
His solicitor Terrence Scanlan told the court he committed the fraud from 2008 to 2012 because he was on a short-term contract with the BBC and made the "very poor judgment not to interrupt the flow of housing benefit".
The council brought the prosecution after a member of staff dealing with a benefits claim recognised the TV personality from a newspaper article.
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